I doubt anything comes of it, but here’s hoping.
If they release something with paid content, I should get to have that paid content forever, or get a refund. 🤷♂️
Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew
Submitted 5 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.polygon.com/gaming/476979/ubisoft-the-crew-shut-down-lawsuit-class-action
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whithom@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Cries in MMOs from 20 years ago.
Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
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 5 weeks ago
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 5 weeks ago
Username checks out
DarkDiamondK@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Close enough
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Reindeer begin keeping tabs on her whereabouts in response.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Out of curiosity, did anyone sue bungie for doing the same thing with destiny’s Y1 is y2 content?
I was one of those dumb bastards who bought the game and its dlc back in 2017
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
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 5 weeks ago
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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Only fair I hope it’ll cost them a lot.
cbarrick@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It won’t
yamanii@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Like Ross said, since they are suing in the USA better to not get your hopes up.
punseye@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Modded servers for The Crew: discord.com/invite/gUczTkphGE
NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
fuck yeah here we go
exu@feditown.com 5 weeks ago
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.
www.stopkillinggames.com
youTellMe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thor summarizes the problems with this initiative pretty well: youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y?si=QPjVZcV7zteBPpos
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
This guy’s strawman arguments have already been destroyed by plenty of people who actually know what they’re talking about and don’t have an interest in keeping the current situation.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No he doesn’t, he creates strawman and fights them
iaaudio@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
What a terrible take.
Joelio@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
The guy who won’t go 5 seconds without flashing his “20 years of service to Blizzard” badge also was dumbfounded at the possibility of people self hosting game servers like World of Warcraft, even though they’ve been doing it for years. Dude seems like a MASSIVE know it all.