• cai@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    The campaign plans to get France’s consumer rights agency to rule against Ubisoft’s killing of The Crew, making game publishers have to leave games at least partially functional when online service ends (or else risk legal action & costs).

    France has strong consumer protections, Europe doesn’t treat EULAs as very legally serious, and Ubisoft was selling the game mere months before they “discontinued online service”, which also stopped the single player mode from working.

    And France’s consumer protection agency accepts complaints from international customers, too, in English.

    So, no, don’t just keep your head down & “play old games”. This is a perfect chance to actually fix shit.

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      7 months ago

      You have a point. But “play old games,” is also part of consumer choice. OP didn’t say “just suck it up and play old games.” I’d say it’s more like “do not buy new games. Stick to perfectly good and playable old games.” In theory, companies should feel it in their pockets.

      In theory.

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      7 months ago

      They should have to offer the server software (or open source it) if the turn off their servers

      Similar to computing devices without root rights (mainly phones/tablets) where I want forced root access (or better unlocking of bootloader), if the manufacturer does not offer new (security) updates.