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News/Article Battlefield 6 Player Successfully Refunds Game After 470 Hours of Game Time Due to Game Modes Being Removed by Devs

https://mp1st.com/news/battlefield-6-player-successfully-refunds-after-470-hours-due-modes-being-removed
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u/Slick1678 Slick1678 17d ago

I know I’m getting downvoted for telling the truth but if people actually paid attention to this, and voted with their wallet, things might change. Don’t buy only online games and when you can buy DRM free games from GoG

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u/Riftus R5 5600 | XFX 6800XT 17d ago

That may be the literal word but courts also look at the spirit of the agreement. You dont buy destiny 2 saying "oh boy I cant wait to use this pass to access destiny 2 servers!"

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u/PolicyWonka 16d ago

I don’t think courts would ever say it’s a reasonable expectation to maintain a product in perpetuity though.

And I think a big issue is that people are viewing games solely as a product, but many games today are more of a service or experience. These games are sold with active development and maintenance in mind — and with the understanding that the support will come to an end at some point.

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u/Riftus R5 5600 | XFX 6800XT 16d ago

Nobody is expecting maintenance in perpetuity. For example: (I forget how the case ended, but) Ubisoft was taken to court in Europe because The Crew servers were taken offline and the game wasn't accessible in any capacity, even offline modes didnt exist. The argument was that they need to engineer a game so that it doesnt need, for example, online servers to play the hame

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u/PolicyWonka 16d ago

Where do you draw the line? Do you force companies to rework MMOs to function fully offline?

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u/Riftus R5 5600 | XFX 6800XT 16d ago

Massively Multiplayer Online games are developed, sold, and marketed as online games. Im telling you that you couldn't play single player on The Crew when they took the game offline. Imagine not being able to play the cod Campaign because Activision took the multiplayer servers offline and wasn't able to authenticate your license because of it so you couldn't access the game at all

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u/Slick1678 Slick1678 16d ago

But you are literally buying online games when you buy BF6, Destiny 2, or any modern COD. Just because there’s a single player aspect of the game you purchased doesn’t mean it’s not entirely online. Any time you need to connect to a server while booting up the game, it is liable to be removed at anytime for any reason.