I only ever wanted a single player open world game and was disappointed I couldn’t reset my progress.
On December 14, 2023, Ubisoft announced that the servers will shut down after March 31, 2024, rendering the game unplayable; the game’s servers later shut down that day.
As this EOL is unlikely to have been something they decided that morning it seems clear Ubi was happy to sell the game to suckers while knowing they would pull the plug 110 days later.
Yeah, I originally was hoping for a singleplayer mode and realized that it didn’t have any way to reset player progress. Ubisoft needs to realize that MMOs aren’t meant to have sequals so often and are meant to support them for a long time and instead release expansions, look at Runescape, WoW, and Guild Wars 1 for examples.
Scott is doing the lords work here, I really hope a precedent is set that games must be made available either via official support or by releasing the server files once official support is ended.
Plenty of ‘dead’ games that I can still play with friends because the devs made it freely accessible once support was over. (Halo CE’s GameSpy patch as an example). We will figure it out, just give us the files!
They literally already are. The Crew is a Singleplayer racing game that sold 12 million copies, many of them physical, and none of those copies are functional anymore.
Just in case you missed it: The joke is a reference to Freeman’s Mind (another Ross creation) where Freeman lists things he was right about but called wrong.
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Huh, TIL the crew was killed.
I only ever wanted a single player open world game and was disappointed I couldn’t reset my progress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crew_(video_game)
This price tracker shows they were selling the title up until the day of the EOL announcement in December.
https://www.dekudeals.com/items/the-crew
As this EOL is unlikely to have been something they decided that morning it seems clear Ubi was happy to sell the game to suckers while knowing they would pull the plug 110 days later.
It seems like a pretty good test case.
Yeah, I originally was hoping for a singleplayer mode and realized that it didn’t have any way to reset player progress. Ubisoft needs to realize that MMOs aren’t meant to have sequals so often and are meant to support them for a long time and instead release expansions, look at Runescape, WoW, and Guild Wars 1 for examples.
Scott is doing the lords work here, I really hope a precedent is set that games must be made available either via official support or by releasing the server files once official support is ended.
Plenty of ‘dead’ games that I can still play with friends because the devs made it freely accessible once support was over. (Halo CE’s GameSpy patch as an example). We will figure it out, just give us the files!
No one’s out to destroy games Freeman, you’re just being paranoid
They literally already are. The Crew is a Singleplayer racing game that sold 12 million copies, many of them physical, and none of those copies are functional anymore.
Just in case you missed it: The joke is a reference to Freeman’s Mind (another Ross creation) where Freeman lists things he was right about but called wrong.
Oooh. I appreciate that. It’s been a long time since I’ve watched that series. I mostly stick to Ross’s game dungeon now.