>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70Xc9CSt
>https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Does anyone own "The crew" here? Or is french or australian? Go sign the petitions on the website. They're not your typical petitions, they're needed to proceed with further legal steps.
Once the Australian govt stop being gays and actually put the petition up I'll sign.
Video is not available anymore.
oops I didn't copy paste the link correctly
>Q: Aren't you asking companies to support games forever? Isn't that unrealistic?
>A: No, we are not asking that at all. We are in favor of publishers ending support for a game whenever they choose. What we are asking for is that they implement an end-of-life plan to modify or patch the game so that it can run on customer systems with no further support from the company being necessary. We agree it is unrealistic to expect companies to support games indefinitely and do not advocate for that in any way. Additionally, there are already real-world examples of publishers ending support for online-only games in a responsible way, such as:
>'Gran Turismo Sport' published by Sony
>'Knockout City' published by Electronic Arts
>'Mega Man X DiVE' published by Capcom
>'Scrolls / Caller's Bane' published by Mojang AB
>'Duelyst' published by Bandai Namco Entertainment
As a Gran Turismo player I'm so fricking upset people are gaslit to think GT Sport's "offline patch" does shit at all. Simple functions like painting your car, applying decals, and buying rims are tied to online only, and the "offline patch" simply makes them inaccessible and gone forever. This patch is purely for marketing because they didn't do any work to preserve it.
The sad part is that it sucks but that's the bare minimum that Ross is asking for. All the extras being tied to Polyphony sucks dick but it's better than the disc becoming nothing but a useless coaster like The Crew or Lawbreakers.
Is the base game playable offline?
You can buy all cars and play all the singleplayer gameplay content yes, but that's not what I said. There's no "but" to this.
Let me rephrase this. When the game was live, your save file is purely online on Sony's servers. After the """"offline patch"""", the flipped off server connectivity and flipped on a local save fail safe. However this has nothing to do with the fact that stupid simple shit like being able to change your car's color is tied to the online-only editor function, and browse/purchase wheels tied to the online-only shop rotation. Those features are now completely dead and inaccessible. And Sony is collecting praise for this. This is fricked up.
It's still necessary for it to be referenced to set a precedent for the courts. You have to understand that. Without it, your alternative is the game being completely inaccessible.
I did a pastebin that you can copy and post on french websites and social media. I already posted it on Ganker in the french thread.
https://pastebin.com/mh518nAp
I HAVE TO MAKE THE MOVIE
I HAVE TO MAKE THE MOVIE
I HAVE TO MAKE THE MOVIE
how the frick is this guy going to fight a giant corporation in a lawsuit if he can't even beat MOLD
He has become one with the mold, if anything it's only made him stronger
I HAVE TO MAKE THE MOVIE
I HAVE TO MAKE THE MOVIE
I HAVE TO MAKE THE MOVIE
God bless the man and anyone who can helps in this endeavor. Live-Service/Online-Only games have been a cancer on the industry for years and have been stifling the kinds of games being made and how players can play them, on top of them being outright murdered for far too long. France being France, I can see they have a good shot of getting shit done since since they'll riot over just about anything.
His approach is pretty sound too since approaches like this have worked in the past. This shit going down in Australia is the entire reason we can refund games on Steam.
Also mods are gays for deleting the threads.
This is literally about a VIDEO GAME being shut down and about live-service games / the entire video game industry.
Most based man in gaming, trying his best to save your games that you bought and Ganker will shit on him.
I swore off of israelitebisoft games a long time ago so I'm sadly unable to sign. Hope he gets more traction.
You may still be able to help depending on where you live, even if you don't own "the crew". Check the website.
No, I'm also in a completely irrelevant country. I already checked. All I can do is watch or spread the word.
What are the chances this actually leads to something?
Not talking about the leaders of gaming companies being hanged and quartered on the streets, but in real world terms.
Is it possible that this actually ends up with governments forcing gaming companies to have end of life plans for their games?
Yes.
France is one of the most important EU countries. The EU is the biggest foreign market for americans companies.
Another example: Australia forced Valve to add refunds to steam games a few years ago.
>have to use worse charger that takes much longer to charge to full
>this is a W to Gankereddit
T-thanks...
The point is to have a universal charger.
Yup. Remember how especially bad cell phones were about chargers before smart phones?
>have to use worse charger that takes much longer to charge to full
que?
IIRC, lightning can only go to 200mA, did that change?
USB-C can go up to 5A and beyond, and I think 240w power delivery on it is a thing now?
We have precedents for governments forcing tech and video game companies to kneel. Just not in the United States because it's a shithole.
Something is better than nothing. Ross admits that even if he losses, at least the law is clear about people not owning their games. Problem is, companies have this legal grey area that they've been abusing for far too long. They know if they tell people that their games are available for a limited time with no EoL plans, they'll lose sales. They're hoping they can ride out this scheme for as long as possible.
I can't think of any other industry that abuses ownership rights this blatantly other than maybe tech/software.
If enough people make noise, and do get some moronic ecelebs around it to help gain word of mouth it can gain traction. If this sticks to Ross and his dedicated band of autists then it won't go anywhere.
>What are the chances this actually leads to something?
Very slim. Companies will probably do something like pic related or try to work around this issue even if they lose the lawsuit. This isn't as clear as "you have to make games refundable", the entire concept of "you have to stop killing games" is very fuzzy and open to interpretation, so corporations will abuse that.
>and you are only able to play as immobile corpse
It just dawned on me that people have been consistently using this exact reaction image for well over 10 years years now. I can't think of another I've seen that hasn't fallen out of favor.
Yeah, the difference is they haven't shut the game down and they didn't leave players with virtually no game.
While a huge exaggeration, something like that would be a little too on-the-nose and would surely generate a ton of backlash. The difference is like a server taking your plate before you're done with it compared to them leaving the plate and just taking the food off of it.
I know these are frickhead publishers we're talking about here, but the more sensible solution would just be to build a game to have some unused LAN or other solution until the game goes dead. While I'm sure many companies want the game to die so players have to move on to something else, I'm sure another many just haven't given a second thought to any sort of end-of-life plan because they just don't give a shit which yields the same result but isn't active malice.
Not an exaggeration at all. Destiny already removes past content with updates.
>pic
Manually doing all that to the game would probably be more work than making it work.
Also, one side of contract is fulfilled by the user when they buy the game. So they already stole the product they sold from everyone except the ones that bought it after that update.
So US law moronic. Theft is still illegal most other places.
didn’t id literally just let their players pay for quake servers if they wanted them? why did companies stop doing this?
>pay
being able to host your own server used to be the norm on most multiplayer games
ha ha ha, jamais! Vous puez du bec!
Ferme la, connard.
>Does anyone own "The crew" here?
haha own, but yes
>Or is french or australian?
oh god, no
You don't have to be french or australian. Just one or the other. Please go to the link
unclear sentence structure.
Yeah. But if you own/have owned the Crew
OR
Are European. Either one works. You don't have to be both.
I witnessed at least four threads on this topic get deleted in the last few hours. Corpojannies are working overtime.
They're b***hing that it has nothing do to with vidya and its just politics. Fricking pathetic, even the SBI threads lasted longer than these threads.
Safeguarding the future of video games is eceleb bullshit and you know it
you're supposed to be arguing over race and gender
Noooo you don't understand, this thread is taking up valuable space that could be dedicated to AI sloppa, or a pornbait thread, or an actual porndump thread, or furry bait thread, or a lol thread, or a /misc/bait thread, or one of the 50 threads that's allowed to exist concurrently for the fotm
You can't just talk about video games!
Aussie ACCC has already been made aware, it'll take a bit to get the ball rolling, but once it does it'll steamroll ubisoft like it did valve.
>Go sign the petitions on the website
Not up yet.
I wonder how many gaming "news" outlets will pick up on this. Gotta keep them suits happy.
>America
>(we are) Hopeless. Go bug the FTC to do something about it maybe.
Damn, it's that bad.
>GAAS shitters coming running back when their shitty gasmes start to get shut down
>literally crying for goberment to save them from... themselves.
Loving Every Laugh
THE MOLD RISES
i remember having it while they were giving it away once, i dont remember on which platform tho, but as it's delisted, is it important?
I believe he mentioned something about being able to do something even if you got it for free. As long as you have an e-mail or can screenshot it in your library or something stating that you got it.
found this in my email, but this is like year early (lip - July) before they were giving it away, i couldn't find any info about any free weekends then, maybe i downloaded a demo and it made me sign up, would make sense
Frick you, the less money unisoft has the less gets to go to The Division. Enjoy things while they last.
The what now?
You will own your games and you will like it
I'm a frog, can you give me a quick run down on why should I vote? It's wageslaving hours here
>QRD:
Ub*soft va tuer "The Crew" en désactivant les serveurs et rendant le jeu complètement injouable. La France a les meilleurs lois pro-consommateur de la planète. Une victoire légale en France pourrait avoir des repercussions dans le monde entier et empêcher d'autres compagnies de tuer leurs jeux.
>Quoi faire?
Signe les pétitions sur https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Ok je vais voter pour mais je vois pas dans quel monde nos juges rouges vont aller dans le sens du peuple
Honestly. I can dig it