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• Kelly@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Should they have announced and removed it as soon as the board meeting ended? How much earlier would that be in this case?

  My unsubstantiated theory is the the licences they signed for all the vehicles and real world content had a 10 year lifetime.

  Usually those contracts would just require that they stop selling the game, but they may have included something about the servers in the contract too.

  Either way they new something was going to change in 2024 and realistically they knew which of these possibilities were viable:

  • sign new deals with all licensors and continue business as usual
  • sign new deals with cooperative licensors and modify the game to remove the others
  • remove the game from sale and keep the servers running for current customers
  • remove the game from sale and kill the servers - tell people to buy the sequal

  I’d they waited until December of 2023 to have that meeting that that is feels negligent.

  If they had that meeting earlier and continued to sell the game (until ≈100 days to EOL) without warning customers that feels fraudulent.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think its a bit ridiculous that you think you have enough information to say they should have acted sooner.

    Its also ridiculous that your arguments rely on what feels wrong.

    The game was 10 years old and people are salty it went EOL. How have this many people not played an online service game before to realize that 10 years is a fantastic run, and nothing lasts forever. Move onto a new game or help build one, this effort to make games live forever is absurd, entitled, and shortsighted.

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    • Kelly@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m using the word “feel” because I’m not qualified to provide a legal opinion.

      It lasting 10 years doesn’t mean much to the people who were sold the game in the last 6 months without any warning they were buying into the final hours.

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They weren’t aware they were buying a 10 year old online game? This isn’t new either, many MMOs have dead periods after their final patch and before a new expansion. The crew didnt even die, they made the crew 2, which apparently was awful or else people wouldnt have complained.

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