ylai to GamingEnglish · 8 months agoUbisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership iswww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1441arrow-down12cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansgames@hexbear.netgames@sh.itjust.workshitsave@preserve.gamesgames@hexbear.net
arrow-up1439arrow-down1external-linkUbisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership iswww.pcgamer.comylai to GamingEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square53fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansgames@hexbear.netgames@sh.itjust.workshitsave@preserve.gamesgames@hexbear.net
minus-squarerollerbang@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoIt can’t not have local save data. It can delete it at exit, sure, but it needs it to load the game properly. Save game extraction might be more complex, but it is still sent to the local machine. Unless it’s a streamed game of course.
minus-squareredcalcium@lemmy.institutelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoSeems like it. Save Game Dumper now available https://steamcommunity.com/app/241560/discussions/0/4306075118785997064/
It can’t not have local save data. It can delete it at exit, sure, but it needs it to load the game properly. Save game extraction might be more complex, but it is still sent to the local machine.
Unless it’s a streamed game of course.
Seems like it.