I agree with that. I'm not into games much, but say music. There's a lot of sites of musicians I follow, they have there special monthly subscriptions for mixes, and what not, but I just can't bring myself to pay ~5 bucks for anything to continue to follow output which is not something I need.  Other streaming tends to be access to things I've already purchased, and can stream if I want (I don't know why this is valuable) or the service just assumes it can find the right algorithm to keep me interested in other content (which I'm not.) I'd much rather just tip creators and developers with sats when I can and buy something at the price that it's sold for.

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Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need To Get Comfortable With "Not Owning Your Games"

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Here is my take:

- Buying a game and fully owning it afterwards is cool
- subscribing to a monthly service with everyone being in the know that it's a subscription and not buying is cool
- Pretending it's "buying" but being at their mercy due to online login is not cool