Campaign video to stop games from being destroyed! It’s being done in a few ways, owners of the game “The Crew” can help especially. There are more worldwide legal options brought up here on what we can do stop this than I think has ever been examined before. Also check out stopkillinggames.com for how to take action directly!

0:00 Background on problem

6:06 General plan on The Crew

9:44 Government Initiatives to stop game destruction

14:16 Website launched to help people take action

16:31 Plan of attack

27:08 Outro

https://stopkillinggames.com

  • Kelly@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Huh, TIL the crew was killed.

    I only ever wanted a single player open world game and was disappointed I couldn’t reset my progress.

    On December 14, 2023, Ubisoft announced that the servers will shut down after March 31, 2024, rendering the game unplayable; the game’s servers later shut down that day.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crew_(video_game)

    This price tracker shows they were selling the title up until the day of the EOL announcement in December.

    https://www.dekudeals.com/items/the-crew

    As this EOL is unlikely to have been something they decided that morning it seems clear Ubi was happy to sell the game to suckers while knowing they would pull the plug 110 days later.

    It seems like a pretty good test case.

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      Yeah, I originally was hoping for a singleplayer mode and realized that it didn’t have any way to reset player progress. Ubisoft needs to realize that MMOs aren’t meant to have sequals so often and are meant to support them for a long time and instead release expansions, look at Runescape, WoW, and Guild Wars 1 for examples.