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I doubt anything comes of it, but here's hoping.

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[–] exu@feditown.com 135 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you're an EU citizen, please take the time to sign this citizen initiative to stop killing games. It could be our best chance of preventing such situations in the future.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

[–] whithom@discuss.online 96 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If they release something with paid content, I should get to have that paid content forever, or get a refund. 🤷‍♂️

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cries in MMOs from 20 years ago.

[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Last week I downloaded Dark Age of Camelot which I have not played nor paid for 20 years, and my character was still there. I was really not expecting them to keep the data for so long without any payment.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Ok......4 hours of sleep a night is officially not enough. I've been awake for about 2 hours now, and read that as

Grandma sued for shutting down her crew.

[–] DesolateMood@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

Username checks out

[–] DarkDiamondK@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Close enough

[–] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Reindeer begin keeping tabs on her whereabouts in response.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Out of curiosity, did anyone sue bungie for doing the same thing with destiny's Y1 & Y2 content?

I was one of those dumb bastards who bought the game and DLC back in 2017

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

It gets to be way harder to argue in court when it isn't a "clean kill", using Ross Scott's words, so The Crew is going to be one of the best examples we'll ever get for courts to rule on. I expect Ubisoft would rather settle than let this one go that far though.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I imagine a lawsuit would likely bring up the topic of how hard it would be for a developer to keep the game around past purchase.

For instance, imagine a massively multiplayer online game; everyone playing the game is acutely aware of how much server hardware is needed to maintain that online presence, and it's unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

That's probably why attention was pushed onto The Crew. It's a racing game that shouldn't need much from a server, so it's arguably unfair to tie it to that access and take it offline.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

Older multiplayer games would let you self-host the server, long before the current trend.

Ubisoft doesn't have to continue to host servers. They just have to release the server code. Zero cost to them.

[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

zero cost to them

I would imagine it would reveal how sh*tty the ubisoft code bases are and has a reputation cost XD. But if it's that big of a risk then they should keep the servers running indefinitely.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I mean, they don't have to release the source code. A compiled version would be fine.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pirates have managed to run servers for tons of MMOs. The only thing stopping people from running servers themselves is that they're not made available.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Don't get it wrong, the reason The Crew was the perfect game to start the movement is solely because Ubisoft is french, a country that has pretty strong consumer laws that they aren't respecting.

[–] ChonkaLoo@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Only fair I hope it'll cost them a lot.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Like Ross said, since they are suing in the USA better to not get your hopes up.

[–] punseye@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago