LA Noire, only to find that has a third-party launcher requirement
And that's something they added years after release, so you're never really safe from that possibility. People were rightfully pissed on steam when rockstar released updates on a bunch of old games - and it was only to add their stupid launcher.
Now that I think about it, I think Far Cry: Blood Dragon did that too. I'm pretty sure I started it once a long time ago, but the last time I tried booting it up, UbiSoft launcher requiring account.
That annoys me in particular as well, because gamers are so quick to excuse it as if it's out of the publisher's control and all up to a third-party. These are AAA gaming companies, they could have easily 1) negotiated for permanent permission to use the tracks, 2) tried to keep the tracks in already sold copies of the game and only take them out of new purchases after license expiration, or 3) not included something in the first place if they knew they were just going to take it away later.
Thankfully I have the disc copies of the old games without steam.
And that's something they added years after release, so you're never really safe from that possibility. People were rightfully pissed on steam when rockstar released updates on a bunch of old games - and it was only to add their stupid launcher.
Now that I think about it, I think Far Cry: Blood Dragon did that too. I'm pretty sure I started it once a long time ago, but the last time I tried booting it up, UbiSoft launcher requiring account.
That annoys me in particular as well, because gamers are so quick to excuse it as if it's out of the publisher's control and all up to a third-party. These are AAA gaming companies, they could have easily 1) negotiated for permanent permission to use the tracks, 2) tried to keep the tracks in already sold copies of the game and only take them out of new purchases after license expiration, or 3) not included something in the first place if they knew they were just going to take it away later.
Thankfully I have the disc copies of the old games without steam.
Unless you own a game on a read-only disk, you don't really own it.
Well, if purchase isn't ownership, then piracy isn't theft.