I doubt anything comes of it, but here’s hoping.

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Ok…4 hours of sleep a night is officially not enough. I’ve been awake for about 2 hours now, and read that as

Grandma sued for shutting down her crew.

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Granny ain’t fuckin around

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Reindeer begin keeping tabs on her whereabouts in response.

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Username checks out

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7 points

Close enough

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If you buy a game, which you cannot use in single player mode, without internet access, you are signing up for this happening to you too, one day, guaranteed.

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At this point I’m afraid only government intervention would help (with citizens asking it to do so)

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Buddy…government doesn’t give a shit about video games. They got wars to start. People to exploit.

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I think the department that protects consumers isn’t busy with wars

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I mean, that’s basically all AAA games in 2024. Even songs PC ports which historically avoided DRM and network requirements is starting to mandate PSN accounts. I 100% would prefer to be able to play offline, more often than not it’s unwanted telemetry or BS bloat but that isn’t something we as users can enforce.

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“You’re gonna hate the way it feels. I guarantee it.”

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If they release something with paid content, I should get to have that paid content forever, or get a refund. 🤷‍♂️

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Cries in MMOs from 20 years ago.

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Last week I downloaded Dark Age of Camelot which I have not played nor paid for 20 years, and my character was still there. I was really not expecting them to keep the data for so long without any payment.

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I understand why most companies wouldn’t do that, but they should be forced to open-source online games that get shut down or otherwise made non-functional.

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If you’re an EU citizen, please take the time to sign this citizen initiative to stop killing games. It could be our best chance of preventing such situations in the future.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

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Thor summarizes the problems with this initiative pretty well: https://youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y?si=QPjVZcV7zteBPpos

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What a terrible take.

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This guy’s strawman arguments have already been destroyed by plenty of people who actually know what they’re talking about and don’t have an interest in keeping the current situation.

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The guy who won’t go 5 seconds without flashing his “20 years of service to Blizzard” badge also was dumbfounded at the possibility of people self hosting game servers like World of Warcraft, even though they’ve been doing it for years. Dude seems like a MASSIVE know it all.

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No he doesn’t, he creates strawman and fights them

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Modded servers for The Crew: https://discord.com/invite/gUczTkphGE

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