If I buy Anno 1800, will I own it or rent it?

[Doffy]

Maybe this subject was moved already... but If I were to buy this game, would I own it?
By that I mean, if somehow Ubisoft went bankrupt (may be not case for few next years, but who knows) and Denuvo/authentication servers or uPlay went down, will I still be able to play a game? Or buy "buying" this game it's more like I rent it? And if they fall, i cannot play anymore? If I buy it, I want to be able to play it in next 20 years for example.

[FluffyNo3]

Same as any other game on any other online store. Same as Steam. This is not a Ubisoft specific thing

[Nenne.]

Step 1. To get an answer on a question use google.
Step 2 read carefully more than 1 article.
Step 3 After that you dont need to post on forum.

Reward: The good felling you get to know you used your brain for something.

[Doffy]

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[Actionjackson]

loool, thats pretty funny!

[Ensign]

TLDR: Technically your renting it. You have a Uplay account. That account has access to the games you bought for it. Your account owns the game not you. When that account is erased then you lose access to those games.

I may be way off base with this example-
In other words your playing an MMO (Ubisoft). You own a character (account). You buy your character an outfit (game) and are allowed to wear (play) it as long as you have access to your character (account). Once the MMO (Ubisoft) shuts down and you lose access to your character (account) you lose your ability to wear (play) the outfit (game) you bought with your money. Dont know if thats easier to understand or more confusing.
END TLDR:


If servers shut down and the company is bust does anyone think the company will "do right" by the consumers and take the time for people to back up their games by downloading them GoG style?
But you will own it since one cant underestimate the talented people of the internet. People fix triple A games all the time. If the company goes bust someone somewhere will find a way to make all games available for download in some form.


Companies like Ubisoft and EA are too big to fail. Its impossible for them to go bust. Its not like the old days of Sega and Atari where they had one flagship game and a bunch of knockoffs and shovel wear. If ubi begins to slip into bankruptcy because for example they pour all the money into assassins creed and it flops, then one of their other flagship titles will pick up the slack.

Its best not to think about these hypotheticals. If they do go bust, worst case is they go in 20 years or 10, by then we will have a new Anno. May as well buy it now and play.

So many people back in 2007 used to oppose digital games bound by storefronts like steam and vowed never to buy these new DRM linked games. 12yrs later and here we are. I wonder if those people just quit playing games all together. Steam isnt dead and wont die anytime soon since alot of us have our games here. Epic games may take some sales but it wont replace steam. Same goes for Uplay launcher.

As much as i hate the Uplay launcher i wont boycott good games becuase of it or deprive myself of them becuase i hate it or becuase they may go bankrupt and i lose my games.

When Ubi dies, the company's assets/ip's (and studios?) will be sold off in auction to the other big and small publishers. With any luck there is a digital trail of accounts and game ownership that can transfer over to other digital store fronts of the publisher who bought out the Anno franchise.

[Doffy]

Thx

[Nenne.]

1,5 days for a 2 minute search...

[Doffy]

There are things that not all understand :) And don't have to :)

[Nenne.]

Originally posted by Doffy:

There are things that not all understand :) And don't have to :)

If they dont have to. Why even bother asking.

[banan1996.1996]

Omg, Nenne, really? He just asked a question, he got an answer, is that really a problem for you? If you don't want to answer just ignore the question instead of telling him to look for the answer...
No need to be rude! Really!

You also asked some questions here in the Anno 1800 discussions, and you could google them instead. Just ignore the question if you don't intend to help. You waste your time doing that, think about it.

[Nenne.]

Originally posted by banan1996.1996:

Omg, Nenne, really? He just asked a question, he got an answer, is that really a problem for you? If you don't want to answer just ignore the question instead of telling him to look for the answer...
No need to be rude! Really!

You also asked some questions here in the Anno 1800 discussions, and you could google them instead. Just ignore the question if you don't intend to help. You waste your time doing that, think about it.

You are right. Sorry for that...It was dumb of me...

Sorry Doffy..

[Doffy]

Cheers! :* no offence taken :) understand your point of view :) thx @banan

[Agamemnus]

Online games that aren't successes often get their servers shut down after a few years. Then it's dead. But this isn't an online-only game per se, so even if the publisher goes out of business and it becomes impossible to play normally, people will probably find a way around it eventually, if there is demand.

[Actionjackson]

Who just delete or cencor my post? And why? There was nothing wrong with it.

[Doffy]

@actionjackson... you probably were close to one of topics that should not to be discussed here... and any reference or suggestion might be taken as such.