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Shardikprime, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

Lol, everyone here sucking Ubisoft toes at every negative mention of Avowed and ACS for the past few months and now y’all get outraged?

Lmao, what a performative level of virtue signaling🤣

amino,

believe it or not, it’s possible for 2 things to be true at the same time. ACS is cool even though Ubisoft is evil. what you call virtue signaling is just people having interests

Duamerthrax, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

Ubisoft can’t complain that I wont buy their games if I don’t really own their games.

uis,

Boycott doesn’t work, grab pitchforks and torches(EU citizens only).

Duamerthrax,

Ubisoft’s stocks aren’t looking great at the moment.

uis,

Ubisoft’s stocks aren’t ubisoft’s assets. It is opinion on how much they worth, not how much they have.

andros_rex, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

What I love about being a broke bitch retro gamer is that I own my games. I have a Tetris cartridge that is older than I am and still works. The batteries on some of my GB and GBA carts have died, but that’s something I can fix. No one can send a stealth update to my Sega Genesis that forces me to create on an account to play or even bricks it somehow. There’s no room for human shit behavior, just a war against the realities of mechanical decay. (And it’s easy to rip ROMs in case of the inevitable.)

Older generations of gaming are well preserved. I don’t think the past ten years or the future will be. “Games as a service” is too big a draw - the goal is to turn everything into a subscription model because why make money once when you can make it forever?

MudMan, (edited ) do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

I've been increasingly frustrated with clickbaity coverage and headlines. Credit to Polygon for being just as obviously opinionated as Gamesradar but titling and writing their piece way more professionally.

I mean, yeah, Ubisoft's lawyers are arguing that the arguments of a lawsuit against them are wrong, that's hardly surprising. Given that they're being sued for taking down an online game they would certainly argue that they had no obligation to keep the game online indefinitely.

It's an interesting case and there are... creative arguments on both sides, but being mad that Ubisoft would argue that the text of their EULA applies seems so weird.

For the record, and because I'll be hounded for this, I've signed all relevant petitions to request regulation about digital ownership that creates an obligation to provide offline versions or access to server code. I'm all for making it illegal to build planned obsolescence into software. That doesn't mean I'm not bothered with bad journalism that I happen to agree with.

TachyonTele,

Hounded? Seriously? Lol

MudMan,

Be honest, you were ready to do some hounding, saw that tackled preemptively and decided to pivot. I can see the hounding intent from here. Those ears are so droopy you're becoming a better boy as we speak.

TachyonTele,

Are you a crazy person?

MudMan,

Not gonna lie, that one led to some introspection and I thank you for the opportunity.

TachyonTele,

Enjoy the rest of your week!

commander, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

When Ubisoft introduced always online DRM with AC2, I was out. It’s nice with the Internet how much being anti-Ubisoft has become common enough to be unsurprising

uis,

Unless you worked in Blizzard.

catloaf, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

Literally just let people host private servers. It worked fine for decades, and still does.

imrighthere,

The HalfLife model worked exceedingly well, until gaben fucked it all up.

huppakee,
@huppakee@lemm.ee avatar

But then they don’t get money, and they really like getting money.

uis,

Wait until some blizzard empoyee comes out and tells how it is expensive for publisher to not pay for hosting.

Klanky, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version
@Klanky@sopuli.xyz avatar

It may be legal, but it certainly ain’t ethical.

danc4498,

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it.

Quill7513,

i have the legal right to stand on the street corner and call everyone who walks by a stupid slut.

that does not mean i will at no point get punched

Lost_My_Mind,

Really unclear if you’re misquoting Jurassic Park, or if Jurassic Park just universally applies to EVERYTHING.

Klear,

Clever girl finds a way

GeeDubHayduke,

Hang on to your DODGSON OVER HERE!

uis,

Maybe in developing countries, but in developed world(Europe mostly) it isn’t.

cyberpunk007, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

I’ve been avoiding Ubisoft games for quite some time. And blizzard. And a handful of other studios because of these bullshit shenanigans.

Lost_My_Mind,

I wish people would take your stance on GTA 6.

Instead, I’m sure it’ll be like “100 billion copys sold in first hour!”

uis,

This is why boycott doesn’t work. They copy each other. So, grab pitchforks and torches(EU citizens only).

atro_city, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

Don't like this? Sign the EU petition Stop Killing Games.

Minizarbi,
@Minizarbi@jlai.lu avatar

Yea I was thinking about this !

uis,

I wish I could sign. Sadly, not all european citizens are EU citizens.

PanArab, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version
@PanArab@lemm.ee avatar

If buying isn’t owning then sharing isn’t stealing…

By principle I avoid “online required” games.

uis,

Avoiding doesn’t work, grab pitchforks and torches(EU citizens only).

ElectricAirship, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version
@ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Deny. Defend. Depose.

AtariDump,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/09d6fe1e-607b-40e5-a920-235e305f758a.gif

Jessica,

Here’s the original in higher quality and less cropping: i.imgur.com/XzgU9AS.mp4

The watermark in the bottom right corner says KLING AI 1.6

parody,

https://files.catbox.moe/ikg3g9.mp4

AtariDump,

Thanks for that! :)

Ledericas, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

To think this is the same company that has to use mythic quest show to promote its propaganda as good PR, guessing it’s partiall Rob’s machelennys fault for being so thirsty to stay in Hollywood spotlight he had to approach something like ubisoft.

Slaxis,

Having watched all of Mythic Quest, I had no idea what you meant and looked it up - I didn’t realize there was any connection. How does the show promote Ubisoft?

suite403,

They made it apparently. But yea, I would never have guessed that if it wasn’t mentioned and I looked it up.

www.ubisoft.com/en-us/…/mythic-quest

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

My friend loves quoting a line from that show where HyperScape was uttered in the same breath as games like Call of Duty as a “mega franchise” to try to will its success into existence. That episode is only a few years old, but HyperScape is already shut down forever.

baines, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

i say ubisoft can eat shit

have not purchased anything from them in over a decade

SARGE,
@SARGE@startrek.website avatar

I got it on one of those giveaways that steam/epic/gog sometimes do, so I never even gave them money over it and I still want my money back.

baines,

haha yep, dealing with their shit is not even worth free

grue,

By their argument, nobody’s “purchased” anything from them in over a decade!

What they’ve been doing that whole time is committing massive fraud (false advertising, violating the First Sale Doctrine, etc.) instead.

Ledericas,

I first heard they were doing propaganda( to make them self look good in a positive light) by basically promoting in a show mythic quest, I’m guessing the creator of isaip is no saint either

Blackmist, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

That’s one of the many reasons why I never bought it.

njm1314, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

Ubisoft you can’t complain if I pirate your games, because I never actually bought them and you weren’t deceived by a lack of purchase.

cyberpunk007,

This is the correct response.

SpicyColdFartChamber, (edited )

Hijacking.

Are you European Union Citizen? Do you like games?

Do you want to own games again? and not just “License” them? Then please join the Stop destroying Videogames Initiative.

Initiative - citizens-initiative.europa.eu/…/000007_en

(Only sign if you are a EU citizen!)

It’s an initiative to get the European parliament to discuss the matter all together, and Iirc, it already has some members that support it. (So It’s not just any ordinary petition that will go nowhere.)

We have already collected 42% of the 1 million signatures from European citizens required. But the deadline is June 2025 and if we don’t get enough signatures by then, it won’t be looked at by the European commission. So to at least get the matter to be discussed, please sign!

(ONLY FOR European Union citizens! No one else! Please do not sign if you aren’t an EU citizen. Also No Brits! there’s another initiative for the UK.)

Short video explainer about the initiative - youtu.be/mkMe9MxxZiI

For more info visit www.stopkillinggames.com

You can also view the petitions for other countries - (Australia, Canada, UK, Brazil… and more)

Lost_My_Mind,

ONLY FOR European Union citizens! No Brits!

signs anyways…is American

SpicyColdFartChamber, (edited )

No, please don’t sign if you are American. That can harm the petition with false signatures.

This is strictly ONLY for European union citizens!

Don’t worry, you can still help by spreading the message among your EU friends or family members(You don’t have to be a gamer to care about this or vote in this!). A lot of the exposure to this initiative is lacking when it comes to non-english speaking EU citizens. You can help there.

huppakee,
@huppakee@lemm.ee avatar

reads a request… doesn’t care… is American 🇺🇸

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