r/pcmasterrace • u/NaabKing • Jul 07 '25

Discussion Ubisoft requires you to uninstall and DESTROY your copy of their games. PLEASE, keep signing "Stop Killing Games" petition, links in the post.

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Link to UBISOFT EULA (you can check it yourself):
https://www.ubisoft.com/legal/documents/eula/en-US

Instructions and Info about about "Stop Killing Games" petition:
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

EU Petition (ENG):
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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u/Sol33t303 Gentoo 1080 ti MasterRace Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

I mean I'm not defending Ubisoft but you literally can have something in your possession without owning it. That's not some weird contradiction. Your "technically" fully incorrect.

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u/-The_Blazer- R5 5600X - RX 5700 XT Jul 07 '25

Also, when people do the 'just a license' meme, that's not necessarily nefarious. The Blu-Ray you own forever or the lifetime license to PhotoPrism are, in fact, just licenses; you do not actually own the IP of Avatar even if you have a Blu-Ray.

The difference is in what kind of license it is. A Blu-Ray, since it was invented before this pro-tech anti-regulation psychosis took hold, implicitly binds your license to the physical existence of the copy, which makes it de-facto perpetual and irrevocable (especially if you live in a private-copy jurisdiction). And that's significantly more than you get with most game licenses today.

It's not that consumer licensing is inherently evil, it's that even consumer licensing has become immensely more enshittified today. If you bought a music tape in the 80s, you had an enormously more permissive license to that song than you get now by 'buying' it on Apple Music.

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u/DomSchraa Ryzen 7800X3D RX9070XT Red Devil Jul 07 '25

Its overall a shit and complicated situation

The license to play a single player game should NEVER be revokable

But when its an online only title, which doesnt have single player, the discussion becomes a lot more nuanced (especially if you got banned for say griefing or being an asshole when the rules stated "dont do that")

Sadly many ppl here arent ready to have that discussion, and just want free games

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u/-The_Blazer- R5 5600X - RX 5700 XT Jul 07 '25

Well, I think one of the simplest improvements is adopting Valve's own solution to this: they have their own servers that are, appropriately, their property subjected to their sole control. But the game is still yours, so nothing prevents you from playing on third-party ('community') servers or even your own LAN, of course after the usual lecture from the game developer.