PSA: if you own the crew, consider taking action.
Especially if you live outside of the US!
Maybe raise a stink with your attorney general and/or representative, too. The whole idea that a company can sell licenses for something and then arbitrarily decide they don’t want to do it anymore and revoke all the licenses doesn’t sound legal. And if it is, it doesn’t sound like it should be.
Kinda wish I had the crew so that I could clown on these Mfers
Is their removal of these licenses a measure to somehow prevent people from taking action?
I own the crew, but honestly think it’s a shit game that’s not worth my attention.
It’s not about this particular game.
It’s about setting a precedent for games you do care about.
The games I care about will be preserved no matter how the publishers of them flail about
Not in this case, seeing that progress is stored online.
Who says that the game you care about tomorrow won’t do this next? Why be against an action/not care about something that can only benefit players now and in the long term?
The games I care about all already have backup options. They’re all the kinds of games that attract people like me who will just fix them right away.
The Crew was great in its time. It was basically the bridge between Test Drive Unlimited (superior open world gameplay) and early Forza Horizon (superior driving physics). Later Forza Horizon games simply took all the good gameplay features from both TLU and The Crew and is unmatched in quality now.
The Crew 2 was worse than both its predecessor and the competing Forza Horizon at that time, so if you were talking about that I’d half agree. But it’s still a problematic industry trend worth stopping.
Digital “ownership”.
“Ubisoft is determined to take things one step further to stamp out any attempts to continue playing it past its expiry date.”
If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.
The problem is this game can’t even be pirated due to how it’s architected.
Lmao, fuck licenses; pirate it, and we’ll make our own servers.
They can’t do shit then
Afaik nobody has cracked it as it’s always-online, though I’d be happily incorrect about this if one can slide me some sauce. I’m one of the affected players in the shutdown (still play occasionally) so the ability to continue playing this game would be very nice.
For anyone who doesn’t think this is a problem, watch this video and join this campaign.
The Crew represent a real chance to change things globally (seriously, watch the video).
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That eats into their profits for their other/new games
you’re only allowed to have fun if we control it
You’re only allowed to have fun if we can monetize it
We don’t care if you have fun. You already paid for it.
I figured it was a micro transaction game. This shit should be covered under right-to-repair.
If you want to do something about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE
If you want to do something about it just go play beam.ng or motor town or another racing game from a smaller dev.
Boycott this shit company
Been doing that for years. Will happily continue.
But I’m just one person. Ubisoft won’t feel it unless hundreds of thousands more do the same.
Same
When Nintendo eshop closed, I lost all my purchases. I tried contacting Nintendo to see if they could transfer my purchases to my switch account, but contacting Nintendo is like trying to contact god, you’re gonna get nowhere
As if copies of a game on your computer is somehow more digital than the copy being on a disk or a chip that’s ROM.
Digital ownership, not storage. As in DRM, GaaS licensing and always-online launchers.
A ROM cartridge was physical ownership, if you had the cartridge, you could play.
A CD-key was also a form of physical ownership, install the game and type in the key from the case, you could play.
That should be “ownership” as actual ownership implies having control over a thing and no one who “purchased” this seems to have much control. Breaking the DRM and creating a self hosted sever is taking ownership of it. Don’t pretend CD keys were physical ownership either unless the key was entirely validated offline which admittedly older key schemes were.
Thanks UbiSoft for rubbing it in my face with this message, “You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?”
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“Your single-payment rental period is suddenly over. Check out our shop where you can single-payment rent another game.”
Fixed it for Ubisoft
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