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.
If they release something with paid content, I should get to have that paid content forever, or get a refund. 🤷♂️
Cries in MMOs from 20 years ago.
If you buy a game, which you cannot use in single player mode, without internet access, you are signing up for this happening to you too, one day, guaranteed.
"You're gonna hate the way it feels. I guarantee it."
At this point I'm afraid only government intervention would help (with citizens asking it to do so)
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.
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Granny ain't fuckin around
Close enough
Only fair I hope it'll cost them a lot.
It won't
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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