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2024 was the year gamers really started pushing back on the erosion of game ownership(www.pcgamer.com)

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ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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OK: Some of the arguments seem a bit out-there. A proposed class-action lawsuit saying players of The Crew were “duped” by Ubisoft compared the situation to the publisher entering peoples’ homes and stealing parts of a pinball machine.

Which part of that is “out there”?

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Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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Yeah, if they want to claim digital piracy is theft, then them doing this stuff is just as they described

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Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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I’m not sure who expected an online game to exist forever. Not the first time the lights have been shut off like this.

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ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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It’s also not some unknown black magic to make online games exist forever. We know how to do it.

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Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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Everything needed to run the game online exists player side. There are many games where people run their own servers because of this, even in WoW. They are literally taking things to disable this ability from what they purchased.

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