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GOG Offers Physical Backups Where Sony Strips Away Ownership
While Sony faces lawsuits over its aggressive digital-only push, GOG quietly reminds players it lets them burn their purchases to physical media. A business stance that doubles as a statement, exposing a fundamental fracture in gaming: who actually owns your games after you've paid?
Ubisoft Connect Outage Locks Players Out of Black Flag Resynced
This past weekend, an Ubisoft Connect outage prevented thousands of PC players from launching Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced — a game they had purchased and downloaded. The incident is technically routine, but politically revealing: when a mandatory launcher goes down, the player owns nothing. It's exactly the scenario physical media advocates have been warning about for years. This time it happened to a freshly released Ubisoft title at the worst possible moment.