Remember folks,
If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.
Sail them seas.

Trying to do all their shutdowns before SKG laws hit, I see.

Epic YouTube comment bro, have an upvote

>>714438343 (OP)
nobody bought that

>play always online game
>it shuts down
>"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOW I CAN'T LE PLAY???????????"

>>714438343 (OP)
You paid for a license, not ownership.

>>714438343 (OP)
Can you pirate anthem as is it even worth pirating?

was anyone even playing it? no? then why do you care?

I'm sure the ten people still playing Anthem are devastated.

anthem was always generic fpslop, came out around the same time is valorant which likewise has no reason to exist, anyone who bought this was an insect brain to begin with

>>714438343 (OP)
Huh, this is astounding news.
I had no idea they were STILL supporting Anthem.
I honestly thought they'd pulled the plug on this vegetable years ago.

>>714438343 (OP)
>EA making sure to kill as many of their games before any laws come into effect from the Stop Killing Games initiative
I expect all other scummy videogame publishers to speed up the death of as many of their games as they can.

>>714438474
^this

>>714438343 (OP)

Kek, this "game" was doa.

>>714438841
No. The game was on life support before it even officially launched. It's surprising it even stayed up this long.

>>714438997
after a point it basically becomes sunk cost of keeping the servers up to try to make some money off of it. i'm sure the game had its whales.

But nobody cared about Anthem. Contrarians are going to act like they cared for his game after years of trashing it.

>>714438659
but that one guy that did

>>714439470
I doubt it has more than a couple hundred concurrent players across all platforms on any given day. Its a special case where a major overhaul was announced, got detailed quite extensively, then was rug pulled very suddenly when it became clear it was going to need more resources to actually accomplish. Whatever community of ride or die players they still had left at that point.

>>714439576
It does not matter if we cared or not. If EA don't want to support the game they should give anyone who bought the game the ability to play it and host their on server/multiplayer.

you can pirate Anthem?

>>714438823
>well actually
Kill yourself.

>>714442189
DDoS them and steal all the server files. If buying isn't buying, stealing isn't stealing.

>>714438343 (OP)
By this logic you can't steal from a library.

>>714438343 (OP)
>If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing
So if buying is owning, then pirating is stealing?

>anthem
>players

I can't decide which one makes me more incredulous, the fact that Anthem servers were still up or that it only came out in 2019
It feels like that fiasco was so much longer ago

>>714443194
If you steal a book from the library, the book is no longer at the library. If you pirate a game, you're not removing it from EAs server.

If you take an audiobook CD from the library, rip it to your PC, then return it to the library, is that theft?

>>714438343 (OP)
>pay for a live service game that will eventually shut down
>game shuts down
>WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

If you paid for this, you get what you deserve.

>>714438343 (OP)
It still baffles me that these retards managed to fuck up an open world mech game

>>714438823
So what license is it? License to play the game? Then when they shutdown the game, they should refund or reimburse the license buyers, because now they cannot play the game anymore.
If they want to revoke the playing right of license owners, they should DECLARE it to be "License for playing this game for 5 years" for example, not doing that will be punished with selling false product

>>714438343 (OP)
Honest to god, I thought they had shut down the servers years ago. I remember there was the whole debate over whether to re-design the game, or keep it as is, with them settling on leaving it as is. I could have sworn they shut down servers shortly after that.

I guess good on them for keeping it up as long as they did?

>>714444115
>If you take an audiobook CD from the library, rip it to your PC, then return it to the library, is that theft?
If you asked the author of the book they would probably say yes.

>>714438823
I'll give you a licence to eat my entire ass for free

>>714440148
No, the one guy that bought Anthem totally deserves it

>>714444231
it wasn't a $300 million+ budget albatross like modern GAAS garbage so EA probably just didn't care enough to actually pull the plug until now

I do remember a lot of talk about it potentially being pulled out of stores and put back into the dev cycle shithole tho. Just never ended up happening

>>714438765
>Play always online game
>It shuts down
>Start up your own server from a decomp years later
>WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M GETTING SUED FOR PLAYING A GAME THE DEV DOESN'T SUPPORT AND I PAID FOR?

>>714438474
SKG wouldn't be retroactive anyway

>>714444350
Agreed, he deserves to be able to play it for the rest of his life.

>>714444767
anthem is such a meme that if you did that I doubt even EA would give a shit even as scummy as they are

>>714438343 (OP)
Concord had more players than this shite

>>714438343 (OP)
>If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.
correct, pirating is copyright infringement

>>714438823
So pirating is not stealing, glad we agree

>>714438659
there's about 12 players