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Legendary Half-Life YouTuber plans class-action lawsuit against Ubisoft for killing The Crew (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 10 months ago by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 212 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (29 children)

The Crew’s servers, scheduled for Sunday March 31, represents a “gray area” in videogame consumer law that he would like to challenge.
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I think the argument to make is that The Crew was sold under a perpetual license, not a subscription, so we were being sold a good, not a service
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the seller rendered the game unusable and deprived it of all value after the point of sale.

Goddam right, that's not a grey area IMO, that shit ought to be illegal. Maybe there should be a term, like let's say 90 years maybe?

[–] DeLift@feddit.nl 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just expect a popup in the game which says something like "Could not connect to server, some multiplayer features will be unavailable. Continue offline?"

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

Or the ability to host community servers like the olden days when a game is sunsetted.

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