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'You won’t find our games on a subscription service' says the founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian, after Ubisoft forecasts a future of players 'not owning' games (www.pcgamer.com)

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"Subscription models will always end up being cost/benefit analysis exercises intended to maximise profit."

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They also straight up refuse to discount anything meaningfully ever. And actively harass anyone streaming gameplay of their games without their permission, and are extremely litigious about emulation that's clearly established as perfectly legal, among a bunch of other shit.

[–] LordJer@beehaw.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo accosting influencers who stream games is in this legal grey are. The people Vice gaming spoke about how their legal department cautioned streaming games. They said at the time there is no case law that covers this issue. And it is not known who how the courts would rule.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Straight up let's plays are maybe ambiguous.

Short clips are clearly fair use and they harass them too.