Late last year, Amazon Luna and Ubisoft deepened their partnership by allowing subscribers to stream the developer’s games they already own on PC. So it’s no surprise that Amazon has chosen to partner with Ubisoft to introduce a new feature to its cloud gaming service: the ability to purchase games from the platform and not just stream them. Subscribers can now purchase select Ubisoft games from Luna developer portaland the selection includes several Assassin’s Creed titles, the Very far games, Child of light and Watch dogs.
Customers will be able to purchase any game they want from Luna, using their Amazon account and as long as their Ubisoft account is linked. The e-commerce giant says subscribers will own the license to any game they purchase and will be able to play on Luna-enabled devices or a computer if they download the title for offline play via the Ubisoft Connect PC launcher. The list of Luna-enabled devices includes Fire TV devices, Chromebooks, and phones.
All titles a customer purchases will appear in their Luna library and all their in-game purchases will sync to their Ubisoft account regardless of where they are paid for. Of course, they’ll only be able to stream the games on Luna as long as they’re subscribers or Prime members, but they won’t lose access to those titles entirely if they stop paying for the service.
As 9to5Google As he points out, this move gives Luna shades of Google Stadia, which was the only cloud gaming platform that allowed users to purchase games when it still existed. Unfortunately, Amazon did not say whether it has plans to expand game purchases and sell titles from other developers.
