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Get Comfortable not Owning Your Games
Cordova, TN; February 19, in the year of our Lord 2024 -- Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is continuing to be the voice of diversity
in the gaming media, and media at large. Did you hear about what
Philippe Tremblay over at Ubisoft had to say recently? Those
deep in the video game industry have been outraged, disgusted
and appalled at this arrogance and hubris. How many of my
previous complacent gamer friends are starting to take notice
and offense to what Ubisoft has been saying and doing. They are
not the only ones too. In case you missed it here it is:
"[Consumers] got comfortable not owning their CD collection or
DVD collection," said Philippe Tremblay (Ubisoft). "That's a
transformation that's been a bit slower to happen [in games]. As
gamers grow comfortable in that aspect … you don't lose your
progress. If you resume your game at another time, your progress
file is still there. That's not been deleted. You don't lose
what you've built in the game or your engagement with the game.
So it's about feeling comfortable with not owning your game."
I love how Philippe acts like the only way to keep your game
save is on their easily hackable servers. How many video game
companies have been hacked and information leaked? What is to
stop a hacker from deleting game saves forever? We run multiple
backups on multiple devices at multiple locations here at Family
Friendly Gaming. I can still go back to NES video games and
utilize my old game saves. So why do we need your servers to
play the games? Just Dance 2023 and Just Dance 2024 are great
arguments against using their servers. The games do not
accurately grade the moves all based on having to use their
servers. Let us play offline. We keep screaming that at these
arrogant, self-absorbed control freaks at numerous video game
companies. There are millions that are with us on this too.
I am sick of iTunes. We consistently have issues with iTunes not
working right. We have issues with it not updating properly. It
crashes the devoted computer we have for it. I got so sick of it
a couple of years ago that I have been buying physical copies of
CDs again. I like having physical copies of CDs again. I
transitioned all of my music to digital downloads and have now
decided that was a mistake and have gone back to physical media.
I consistently buy DVDs and Blu-rays in the physical copy realm.
I have been encouraging Disney to release their Disney+ shows on
physical copy media. I may see something on Netflix and then buy
a physical copy because I want to cut Netflix and any of the
other streaming services. I prefer physical copies.
A lot of people I know begrudgingly went along with the move to
digital downloads for movies and TV shows. The more people I
talk to the more I find out they are sick of the repeat pay to
view structure. They want to buy a movie one time and watch it
as often and as long as they want. Philippe is misreading the
room. At Family Friendly Gaming we purchase physical copies of
games we can play via a digital download. We prefer the physical
copy every single day of the week. We reject Steam games again
and again unless we are being paid for them. We grade games
lower when they do not provide for the millions upon millions
within the physical copy movement. I guess Philippe wants
another video game industry crash. More and more people are
getting fed up with
digital downloads,
and rejecting this kind of attitude.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Emperor
Family Friendly Gaming
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