*Semi-rant about games, Ubisoft, and game launchers, and windows 7 (yea yea I know upgrade to windows 10!, I can't afford to get a new computer right now, ok)*
So I always buy my games fair and square, though admittedly I will often wait years later and then buy them on deep discount. But I do buy them regardless, and feel piracy is not ethical otherwise.
However, recently I had a couple incidents involving my steam games where I was re-thinking about this topic.
So I had bought Assassin's creed origins a few years ago but never played it. I also had bought Assassin's creed unity as well. So Ubisoft recently updated their Ubiplay game launcher, and it no longer supports windows 7. Many people on windows 7 lost access to all their ubisoft games as a result (there is a long long thread about it in the official ubisoft forms)
First, Ubisoft kept giving B.S. excuse of "we are aware of the issue and working on it, rest assured" Months then passed with the same B.S. Public relations only excuse being given. Well, then finally Ubisoft admitted that, dang, gee, we are so sorry, but the updated Ubisoft launcher will no longer support windows 7...guess you all are out of luck! (with the implication that you should update to windows 10)
Many gamers are understandably upset about this. (including me) So when I bought Assassin's creed origins it said windows 7 was perfectly fine and listed it as a proper requirement, and the game ran fine on it when I was testing it back when I had bought it. So I think this is very bad customer service on ubisoft's part and many feel the same way, saying they will never buy Ubisoft game again after this. (in the thread about this issue I was reading)
I think this is one of the rare circumstances where piracy is acceptable, because of people (such as myself) who paid for a game who can no longer play it. Ok, I will note there is a work-around -- that works for *right now* -- involving installing reshade, but who knows when Ubisoft will do a new update that might possibly make that work-around no longer work, as in the past I picked this up from reading the long thread, Ubisoft seems to want to plug any holes like this that allow for work-arounds by the way. So its a real danger this work-around will be eliminated as well.
Anyway, that is my 2 cents and I'm interested in other opinions on the topic. if this topic is too controversial I understand and have no objection to this thread being locked or deleted, by the way.
So I always buy my games fair and square, though admittedly I will often wait years later and then buy them on deep discount. But I do buy them regardless, and feel piracy is not ethical otherwise.
However, recently I had a couple incidents involving my steam games where I was re-thinking about this topic.
So I had bought Assassin's creed origins a few years ago but never played it. I also had bought Assassin's creed unity as well. So Ubisoft recently updated their Ubiplay game launcher, and it no longer supports windows 7. Many people on windows 7 lost access to all their ubisoft games as a result (there is a long long thread about it in the official ubisoft forms)
First, Ubisoft kept giving B.S. excuse of "we are aware of the issue and working on it, rest assured" Months then passed with the same B.S. Public relations only excuse being given. Well, then finally Ubisoft admitted that, dang, gee, we are so sorry, but the updated Ubisoft launcher will no longer support windows 7...guess you all are out of luck! (with the implication that you should update to windows 10)
Many gamers are understandably upset about this. (including me) So when I bought Assassin's creed origins it said windows 7 was perfectly fine and listed it as a proper requirement, and the game ran fine on it when I was testing it back when I had bought it. So I think this is very bad customer service on ubisoft's part and many feel the same way, saying they will never buy Ubisoft game again after this. (in the thread about this issue I was reading)
I think this is one of the rare circumstances where piracy is acceptable, because of people (such as myself) who paid for a game who can no longer play it. Ok, I will note there is a work-around -- that works for *right now* -- involving installing reshade, but who knows when Ubisoft will do a new update that might possibly make that work-around no longer work, as in the past I picked this up from reading the long thread, Ubisoft seems to want to plug any holes like this that allow for work-arounds by the way. So its a real danger this work-around will be eliminated as well.
Anyway, that is my 2 cents and I'm interested in other opinions on the topic. if this topic is too controversial I understand and have no objection to this thread being locked or deleted, by the way.