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STEAM WILL I NEED TO DOWNLOAD FAR CRY 5 FOR UPLAY TOO FULL VERSION

The public bought a game title on Steam for 75% off, thinking it was a great deal, only to subsequently learn that they have 60 days to play the damned thing before it becomes unplayable. The consumer can only be jerked around so much before a clapback occurs and losing purchased assets based on the whim of the company that sold them isn’t going to be tolerated forever. And while I’m loathe to be one of the “there should be a law!” guys, well, there should be legal ramifications for this sort of thing. There are other options out there that would not remove purchased items from people, be it local installations, allowing fans in the public to host their own servers, etc. Instead, Ubisoft appears to be joining a list of companies that believes it can sell you something and then take it away, all while including that same something in some bundled release afterwards. I’ve been taking flak for years, from EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE, about my continued preference for physical possession of physical media - from records and tapes, to CDs and CD-ROMs, to DVDs and DVD-ROMs - over merely the ability to ACCESS media through one or another streaming service, website, or similar platform. My stated reason for this is PRECISELY that “I don’t want somebody else suddenly deciding to remove content that I’m counting on being able to access.” That is to say, I spotted the problem with non-physical media RIGHT AWAY, the second it first started to become a phenomenon. It never fails to amaze me that pretty much the WHOLE REST OF THE WORLD takes somewhere between five and thirty YEARS to spot the same problems - often, not until the problems ACTUALLY HAPPEN, at which point it’s often way, way too late to do much about them.