r/pcmasterrace • u/Abuelofierrero • Jun 17 '26

News/Article Ubisoft is celebrating

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u/Uk0GN0sS Jun 17 '26

GOG or/and torrent forever!

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u/Raskuja46 Jun 17 '26

As these sorts of anti-customer practices get more and more prevalent I have been shifting as many of my purchases over to GOG as I can.

The writing is on the wall. If a game doesn't make the cut to land on GOG's store front then it is an ephemeral product.

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u/Uk0GN0sS Jun 18 '26

Same. I only buy games on GOG. Plus i use torrent also. Why would i give a single … if the big tech corpos don’t care about the consumers.

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u/Enter_Name977 Jun 17 '26

torrenting is illegal

direct download it is

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u/Archon-Toten Jun 17 '26

Torrenting itself is not illegal. You could create your own torrent of your own content and it would be perfectly legal.

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u/Enter_Name977 Jun 17 '26

torrenting copyright content is 100% illegal. Direct downloads are not (downloading)

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u/Archon-Toten Jun 17 '26

No.. the acts themselves, unless your country has weirdly specific laws are fine, unless you torrent illegal content. Or direct download illegal content. Then it's piracy. You could torrent a linux distribution for example and that's not illegal.

You cannot possibly think all direct downloads are legal.

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u/Enter_Name977 Jun 17 '26

Buddy i just told you copyright content torrents are illegal in my country. Only hosting copyright is illegal on direct downloads

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u/MrPopCorner 9950x3D - RTX5090 - 64GB 6400 CL32 Jun 17 '26

Don't forget Steam, once you buy it, it's there forever.

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u/handyk Jun 17 '26

Doesn’t help you if servers are shut down 

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u/MrPopCorner 9950x3D - RTX5090 - 64GB 6400 CL32 Jun 17 '26

Well don't buy online-only games then.. I know it's not the solution, but it helps I guess 🥲

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u/sparkling-rainbow Jun 17 '26

It's my solution xD Only online only games for me ar mmo things

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u/detrebear Jun 18 '26

And how do you know it's online-only? That's right, by "buying" it. Some customers are bound to be screwed.

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u/MrPopCorner 9950x3D - RTX5090 - 64GB 6400 CL32 Jun 18 '26

When you see on steam it always says: single player and online

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u/detrebear Jun 18 '26

But that has nothing to do with online-only games. Singleplayer and multiplayer games can both be online-only or not.

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u/SordidDreams Jun 17 '26

*For as long as Steam exists. The whole point of GOG is that it lets you download offline installers, which, as GOG's own marketing points out, can't be taken away from you.

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u/Owlanr Jun 17 '26

Not really, when you die your account is gone. You can't pass it down.

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u/MrPopCorner 9950x3D - RTX5090 - 64GB 6400 CL32 Jun 17 '26

You can take care of that right now..

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u/Owlanr Jun 17 '26

Iirc they literally check if you're dead and lock it down

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u/MrPopCorner 9950x3D - RTX5090 - 64GB 6400 CL32 Jun 17 '26

Nah, you can put it in your will and they legally have to transfer ownership. In Europe this is the law.

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u/Owlanr Jun 19 '26

Turns out i was right

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u/MrPopCorner 9950x3D - RTX5090 - 64GB 6400 CL32 Jun 19 '26

This is for non-Europeans

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u/Owlanr Jun 19 '26

I hope that this doesn't work for europe too

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u/Regular-Ad-6462 Jun 17 '26

Have you ever heard about CSGO made by valve ?

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u/emanhw Jun 17 '26

Bad example, since CS:GO is still available to download on Steam with community-run servers.