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 3 days 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 3 days ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Cries in MMOs from 20 years ago.
Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago
Username checks out
DarkDiamondK@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Close enough
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Reindeer begin keeping tabs on her whereabouts in response.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 3 days ago
Only fair I hope it’ll cost them a lot.
cbarrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It won’t
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Like Ross said, since they are suing in the USA better to not get your hopes up.
punseye@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Modded servers for The Crew: discord.com/invite/gUczTkphGE
NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
fuck yeah here we go
exu@feditown.com 3 days 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 2 days ago
Thor summarizes the problems with this initiative pretty well: youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y?si=QPjVZcV7zteBPpos
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 days 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 2 days ago
No he doesn’t, he creates strawman and fights them
iaaudio@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
What a terrible take.
Joelio@lemmy.ml 2 days 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.