Will gamers soon no longer own their video games? It seems inevitable!

Gaming News Will gamers soon no longer own their video games? It seems inevitable!

Could the future of video games be completely digital? In any case, this is the opinion of Philippe Tremblay-Gauthier, subscription director at Ubisoft for the Ubisoft+ service.

. “People have gotten used to not having their CD or DVD collection anymore. It’s a transformation that happens a little slower in games. Players are becoming more and more comfortable in this area. If you continue your game at another time, your progress file will still be there. It hasn’t been deleted. “So it’s about being comfortable with not owning your game,” he explains at GamesIndustry. Nowadays there are almost no physical games left on the PC, but on consoles the good old covers are still very present.

Philippe Tremblay-Gauthier from Ubisoft+

What we think of this debate

An answer that was rather poorly received, particularly on attic player

. In our JV debate we have two opposing views. On the one hand, we have Panthaa, who has been a PC gamer since 2003 and is therefore used to buying his games digitally. He understands that the subscription director is promoting Ubisoft+. On the other hand, Kaname says that it is obvious that gamers care about owning their titles so that they can easily play them ten years later, and thinks that Philippe Tremblay-Gauthier expressed himself in this way to start a debate.

These are in-house productions on the Ubisoft+ platform; there should be no risk of this catalog disappearing from the platform. But nothing is impossible as The Crew will be removed from all online stores before the closure of its servers in 2024. The reason is a licensing problem. Therefore, those who own the title were able to receive a refund, no announcement was made for long-time players. Many arguments seem to go one way or the other. We invite you to discover them in our JV debate above.