We've all been there right? You paid for a game, it required an active internet connection and a couple of years later the publisher decided they're done with it and shut it down leaving you with a broken game. Annoying.
The campaign plans to get France’s consumer rights agency to rule against Ubisoft’s killing of The Crew, making game publishers have to leave games at least partially functional when online service ends (or else risk legal action & costs).
France has strong consumer protections, Europe doesn’t treat EULAs as very legally serious, and Ubisoft was selling the game mere months before they “discontinued online service”, which also stopped the single player mode from working.
And France’s consumer protection agency accepts complaints from international customers, too, in English.
So, no, don’t just keep your head down & “play old games”. This is a perfect chance to actually fix shit.
You have a point. But “play old games,” is also part of consumer choice. OP didn’t say “just suck it up and play old games.” I’d say it’s more like “do not buy new games. Stick to perfectly good and playable old games.” In theory, companies should feel it in their pockets.
They should have to offer the server software (or open source it) if the turn off their servers
Similar to computing devices without root rights (mainly phones/tablets) where I want forced root access (or better unlocking of bootloader), if the manufacturer does not offer new (security) updates.
Just play old games. Many will let you self host!
Neverwinter nights anyone?
The campaign plans to get France’s consumer rights agency to rule against Ubisoft’s killing of The Crew, making game publishers have to leave games at least partially functional when online service ends (or else risk legal action & costs).
France has strong consumer protections, Europe doesn’t treat EULAs as very legally serious, and Ubisoft was selling the game mere months before they “discontinued online service”, which also stopped the single player mode from working.
And France’s consumer protection agency accepts complaints from international customers, too, in English.
So, no, don’t just keep your head down & “play old games”. This is a perfect chance to actually fix shit.
You have a point. But “play old games,” is also part of consumer choice. OP didn’t say “just suck it up and play old games.” I’d say it’s more like “do not buy new games. Stick to perfectly good and playable old games.” In theory, companies should feel it in their pockets.
In theory.
I had no idea they killed The Crew like that, insane.
They should have to offer the server software (or open source it) if the turn off their servers
Similar to computing devices without root rights (mainly phones/tablets) where I want forced root access (or better unlocking of bootloader), if the manufacturer does not offer new (security) updates.
love Neverwinter nights! I need to fire it up again, but I seem to recall the random crashing was moderately annoying.
I have this game, but it was tough to get into. Is it a really tough game or was i doing it wrong?
As cai@kbin.social pointed out too, it’s more an effort to revert modern games, to act like old ones back again, including self-hosting.