A wholly subscription-driven games industry would be "savage", says Larian CEO

17 Jan 2024Source: RPS
Larian CEO Swen Vincke has been reading Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay's thoughts from yesterday about how players need to "get comfortable" with renting their games as a package, rather than "having and owning" an individual copy. His broad takeaway is: that ain't it, chief.


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