MikeJan 25, 2024
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The proliferation of DRM and walled-garden game vendors has eroded ownership rights over video games, and risks the same fragmented subscription frustrations we see with film. #copyrightweek #videogames https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/fragging-subscription-model-comes-gamers
Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jan 24, 2024 at 9:01pmWeb
Show threadMax Lee Jan 24, 2024
@eff This will never fly the way it did for music/movies/series simply because we already have thousands of games with an insanely high replayability. There is zero reason for a majority of gamers needing a subscription to play something because we already have hundreds if not thousands of games in our backlog... and for the "hip new story game" one can just watch a video series/stream.