Current situation:
>Buy a game
>Game is linked to official's servers in someway
>Dev stops supporting game/server
>You lose the ability to play/activate it FOREVER
What he's proposing:
>Buy game
>Dev stops supporting game/server
>Dev gives the owners a way to play/activate it, such as LAN, community support or patch to disable activation methods
>You DONT lose the game you bought and can enjoy it FOREVER
This should be simple enough to understand even for your average brainlet browsing Ganker.
There's literally no downsides for the consumer and also helps to save games.
Nobody ever had trouble understanding it, some people just like to be contrarian for (You)s
I mean, I empathize with your position but the games I buy, play, and enjoy don't have these problems.
How many times does it have to happen to you before you realize you're voting for this with your wallet?
voting with your wallet has never worked. i generally dont buy new games and dont even own the crew, but the point is that things you pay for shouldnt be allowed to be taken from you. idk where the frick you "your fault if you buy new games" guys were in the SBI threads.
There is a downside to company making the game which is why they don't want you to own your games.
If you can play a game forever you aren't inclined to buy the new thing they are selling.
If they can remove the ability for you to play the game you bought they can also sell it to you again later.
>If you can play a game forever you aren't inclined to buy the new thing they are selling.
They could, and this is a crazy idea, make something better than their last game so that people are encouraged to move on. Not just shut down the old one so that they're forced to.
This requires effort and talent. It is easier to just shut down whatever people are playing and if they want the next game/reboot/remake they will have to buy whatever low effort result the company shit out. This way the company can keep making lower and lower quality games and players will either HAVE to purchase those or they don't get to play anything in the franchise they are interested in.
and this is a good practice because...?
It is only good for the company making the game.
Frick off, you corporate bootlicking dipshit.
Nothing about that post explicitly praised businesses for these practices.
This makes sense but doesn't really happen.
If the devs really want you to move on, they just release a sequel, dump money into the marketing again, put the previous game on life support, and maybe shut it down way later when everyone stops caring. Case in point: the exact case in question. Crew 2 has been out for 6 years. Nobody ACTUALLY gives a shit, so this would totally fly under the radar if it wasn't for this gay's campaign.
Okay, now after this thread gets deleted, try posting it again but without the eCeleb OP pic
Gamers are the most oppressed people in the history of humanity
>YOU'D THINK YOU WERE LOSING YOUR MIND!
>You lose the ability to play/activate it FOREVER
Good.
>bro just spend time and money to update a game that was such a failure you're shuttering it for good
Ok I’ll bite I have seen you spergs posting this homosexual alot lately. How does this eceleb help vidya? What do you need no I won’t give anyone my shekels
You just need to watch these videos and spread the word, even Digital Foundry aknowledges this campaign
I assumed he was trying to grift something yeah all this sounds real good I don’t play live service slop tho or anything online really ive always suspected companies would shut everything down. I’ll bump the threads for you. Why isn’t Ubisoft just letting people host private servers tho? Isn’t that the answer what reason could possibly have to not allow that? I would assume an old game that people love would just bring more fans to the new games it’s good publicity
>Why isn’t Ubisoft just letting people host private servers tho?
Ancient lost tech.
Wait do most online games not have private servers anymore? Sorry anon I’m a neet that lives under a rock
You had to be hibernating under that rock because option for lan or dedicated servers has been mostly missing from games for more than a decade now.
A decade is about right for me I don’t have the reflexes anymore to play a competitive FPS. I don’t see any point in playing online I’m old
>Digital Foundry
yeah, so more reason not to help
>even Digital Foundry aknowledges this campaign
THE Digital Foundry?
>me running to this thread to fiercely argue against me having rights
prepare for another thread full of food, movie ticket, restaurant/buffet analogies
>>I made a game the way I wanted to make it without unnecessary outside interference
>I want to buy that game knowing full well what to expect
Seems perfectly normal right? Gamers have been saying since the 1980s that people should be able to play what they want without the state stepping in and deciding what's best for them. What went wrong that people are now begging the government to regulate what games you can voluntarily purchase? Is it just that zoomers are worthless authoritarian crybabies?
Average person in this hobby does not care because they don't really play video games
who is this nasty ass homie and why do people keep posting him (don't answer that)
Thing is, virtually every always-online game that is B2P won't be much of a loss if it ever shuts down.
There are F2P games that are fun enough that I'd want them to be preserved as offline versions or with dedicated server support when they die, but how does this affect them? If you never expected to actually "own" the game and never bought it, the devs are still under no obligation to provide any kind of post-EoS support, are they?
And then you have singleplayer games with optional online that relies on publishers' servers. You can still play the game if they ever shut down, so it shouldn't affect those either.
So what's the point?
Ross is morally correct but he is incompetent and ironically his flailing will eventually result in a bad precedent in Europe to accompany the existing legal ruling in the US.
Ok but warhammer made female custodes which signals the leftist invasion