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But I still need the website to actually download the game my point is if GOG went down I would be in exactly the same situationm I have no way to get another copy of the game.

So it isn’t any more convenient to me than Steam


I think that ship has unfortunately sailed.

Even if I buy a game on Steam I don’t technically own it. If the game was ever deleted from their servers and then I lost my local copy either because I uninstalled it or because I got a new computer, I would have no way to get my game back, and I doubt that Valve would refund me.

But some games literally don’t have physical releases, even if I did have an optical drive. So what option do I have?

The only real solution to all of this is a changing copyright law that says that once a piece of software no longer becomes commercially available through legitimate means it becomes legal to pirate it. But that would require politicians around the world to a, understand computers and b, not being 900,000 years old.


They say they might and they say that they will email you before they do.

About them deleting your games library because I can’t see any information on that anywhere.


If you read the page link to it doesn’t say anywhere that they will delete your old game. OP is being disingenuous.


This is such a non issue.

Literally from the link that was posted

We may also close long-term inactive accounts to maintain our database. You will be notified by email if we begin the process of closing your inactive account.

If your account was flagged as inactive and you would like to keep using it, you can cancel the closure of your Ubisoft account.

Did you even read it.

They are not closing your account randomly they’re closing old accounts as is required by law, you are wand that this will occur and given time to log in and prevent it from happening.

And there isn’t anywhere on that page where they say they will delete your old game so I don’t know why that bit comes from.


A guarantee apple trying spin it into their own decision.

Making two separate versions for the US in EU market would be really expensive so I doubt it’s gonna happen.



Lol says apple simp. See how that’s not actually a counter argument see how you actually have to explain your points in order for them to be valid and see how you failed to do so because every single point you come up with lacks evidence.

You have said that it is impossible to make efficient batteries that a user replaceable, but you have failed to demonstrate why this is the case. Phones have historically had use of replaceable batteries for years it’s been fine. Manufacturers just realized they could force people to buy new phones more easily if they didn’t make the batteries replaceable, it’s got nothing to do with efficiency, and everything to do with anti-consumer capitalism.


Good god you’ve missed the point haven’t you?

If you want shit with removable batteries, cool, go out and make your demands heard. But why should your demands be pushed onto everyone else

Because companies are not providing products with removable batteries so the consumers refusing to buy products with non-removable batteries doesn’t work because there’s no alternative product to purchase. Manufacturers know they have consumers in monopoly so they have no reason to change.

What about the consumer that doesn’t give a fuck about usb-c or removable batteries?

The USB c-thing is not just about user friendliness it’s also about the environment. Constantly having to throw old charges away because their incompatible with new products produces an enormous amount of e-waste, everyone using the same charger reduces it, which is only a good thing. Also the Apple charger which is what I’m assuming you’re going on about is actually less safe than the usb-c standard. I think we can all agree that manufacturers should use safer options when they become available.

Why should they be made to buy products designed around standards that aren’t important to them?

If a product has a feature you don’t care about, why do you care, just don’t use it and you’re fine.


The battery is still unnecessarily glued in with permanent adhesive that requires a heat gun to melt it though.

I never understand why batteries need to be glued in at all, surely pure friction will keep them in place. If you really need them stuck down use pull tabs.


The EU market is almost as big as the US market so yeah they’d be giving an awful lot up.


They can be, but do you want them to be. Most are not in convenient places.


Yeah but a business park or industrial estate is no place you want to live, so it’s not like thoss offices can be converted.



Absolutely, but this one’s especially stupid.

It’s like claiming that I am guilty of copyright violation because I read their book. If I regurgitated word for word their novel, for free, to anyone that asked for it, than yeah that would be copyright violation. However I sincerely down that is what’s actually happening here.


I feel like he never really reviews products and just read the spec sheet. There are much better tech reviews and they’re perfectly capable of producing flashy visuals as well so there’s no real point to him.


Something something shoots astronaut in back of head


Now is the time for the twitter devs to implement “arse covering mode”. Although they probably have been in that mode since the buyout.

Keep every email. Recorder or otherwise document every phone call, and insist on every instruction being in writing.

It’s amazing how many managers no longer want you to do a thing when you insist that the instructions to do that thing are in writing.


Jerboa won’t even load for me. It just crashes and force quits.


Although not conclusive if you do a Google keyword search for “Reddit alternatives” the numbers go stratospheric in the last 2 weeks.

If people wanting to leave Reddit work normal levels, there wouldn’t have been such a huge spike in searches.


Yeah but you’re also also not contributing to the horde of data that they can sell to the AI companies. So your account isn’t useful to them.

They are boasting now but they know they’re done for.

I can’t imagine this stock price is going to be anyway near what they wanted to be when the IPO comes in. Assuming it now happens at all.


If Reddit experience a drop a 5% of its user base I doubt they would immediately notice. And even if they did sites like this (pcmag) would not consider that a major drop and so wouldn’t even report it as such.

But we all know that 5% of the users produce 90% to the content.