I was being sarcastic, my bad. How does this convince me people who bought the crew were deceived?

Its literally a protection for those who create art or science. You are arguing what you think the spirit of the law is vs. what it functionally does. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Its not a privilege, its a protection for artists. There is nothing that says they have any responsibilities to their work after the copyright expires. I’m not sure where you got this privilege thing from.

It will be available in the public domain once the copyright expires, in the case of the crew.

Feel free to make another racing MMO and call it whatever you’d like though.

Sounds pretty fair to me.

Well let me go back to 2005 and tell young me that I only own a license to WoW so I can say “no shit idiot” and slap my future self. If you were deceived that’s on you.

You are implying its about server costs then? Activision sunset the crew because they had been developing the crew 2 for a long time. It had to come out eventually. Allowing third party hosting of the crew would have cost them a lot of money. Why should they take a loss in that situation?

Well right now it no longer exists and its not in the public domain so noone is allowed to recreate it. Once it enters public domain, it will be legal to recreate it. I don’t think its on the company to prop up everyone else after they no longer have ownership of the IP. Servers have been reverse engineered before, and in WoW classics case, they brought in the indie devs who were doing it to help them recreate the game again for real.

Won’t it still eventually go into public domain whether the servers are running or not? Then any company would be free to remake the game or use the IP?

They shouldnt be required to do anything with it. Theres no public safety issue that requires it be maintained, its just a game. You also seem to imply making money from creating a game is immoral. This whole “art” belongs to everyone thing is stupid and only hurts artists.

Do people not literally have the crew on disk? There you go, they own it.

A quick search found multiple pirated versions of rocksmith, you might already be able to do the last part of your post.

Why weren’t people upset when they first bought the game and realized they needed to be online to play it then? Why did it only become a talking point after the fact? You could argue it was shitty to make it a network only game and I might agree, but to say people were deceived and didnt realize it couldn’t be played offline until the servers were shutdown is absurd.

I did and have read about it and disagree. I dont think anyone was tricked and thought they’d have the crew forever. This all seems very self entitled in my opinion. Point out any technicalities that you want to, people should have expected the game to be sunset eventually, and that it would be gone after that, just like every other online only game.

Technically right but the game required network access to play anyways so I’m not sure that people were deceived by this as it happened.

I agree woth everything you said but want to add that leaving big open spaces can be an effective design choice. Compare botw to totk and the ambiance changes drastically due to this.

Correcting course is a good thing. If elon were to change course and spend all his energy ending world hunger or something, I wouldnt shit on him for it. I dont think it will happen with him, and if it did it would take years before I’d believe it was earnest, but we should allow people room to grow and change based on prior mistakes.

All that said I’ll most likely not play shadows. Assassins creed as a whole is somewhat stale. Ive ridden that ride so many times.

Hard agree. Too risky these days but bg3 was a sure bet.

Its for the people that only buy when its a “good deal”. Its usually for old games that are well liked or for newer games that are maybe a year old now. The non sale price is for people who can’t wait for the discount. Sorta like waiting for a movie to go to video/streaming rather than go to the theater.

Yeah pretty much the same here, nothing negative to say but don’t really play much. When I want to play a PvP shooter though thats what I’ll play, the guns feel fantastic and the speed is hectic.

Man if you like guns and portals, your gonna love Splitgate.

Sure, but that means everyone who disagrees on that point is arguing in bad faith, which is not possible. People argue what they think is right, and change their minds over time. Everyone was wrong about something at one point.

Just because they have faulty logic doesnt make them bad faith. You have faulty logic in this case, should I assume you are bad faith?

This attitude of “only one side follows facts and it just happens to be mine” is so amnesic, you never were always on the right side.

I just want to say penis place made me laugh out loud!

You mean people took opposing sides on a topic on a debate forum? Color me surprised.

Customers dictate what they want to play, not the developers. You might like the idea of content generated on the spot (which has existed for a long time BTW) but there will be others who dont like that. Baldurs Gate III done with AI would have been half as popular. There are RPGs with AI right now via mods, I believe there is one in mount and blade, if you want to try one out.

Can someone explain the cultural difference between Japan and the rest of the US around copyright law?

Okay yeah this literally happened to me too with my old account, although eventually I did recover it. Their self service stuff is bullshit. Also the psn requirement of course.

Might be worth checking out some comparison videos, some prefer the base game visuals.

I honestly don’t think the remaster helps, but I’m a huge fan of the original still. Its not been enough time for a real remaster in my opinion.

They were trying to either profit off the data collection directly or use it to increase future sales or improve marketing.

They tried the stick, which was you can’t launch the game without an account, when they should have used the carrot instead, which would be giving in game bonuses for logging in and willingly giving them your data.

Also part of the problem is that Sony does make good games, and has for a while. They are games people want to play so that makes it more frustrating.

I’m not disagreeing with you but can I ask what made it so hard to get through the PS account login?

Ive never tried it that way, I usually use a controller from the couch but theres some games that doesnt work well. I dont think I would do well with satisfactory on a couch and tv setup with kbm, even if it was a normal mouse.

There are mouse and keyboard devices made for using from a couch too, they usually have some sort of track ball type thing for the mouse. Usually the tricky part is making it so you can even see your mouse on such a big screen.

It might still be best just to convert your desktop into a couch and tv device at that point. Or a steamdeck.

Not yet!

Thats it! Super fun, fast game for sure.

Most games do this, you can’t play ranked matches until you’ve played non-competitive ones for a while first, and then you play placement matches where your ELO is allowed to move much farther per game so you dont stay buried in low ranks if you dont belong.

Ranked games tend to be thrown off by high skill players in low ranks, and it tends to even out once you get to the top ranks as the skill gap thins.

Well its obviously player retention, but it could be that if they did put them with other low ranks, they mostly would have a bad time and most would quit. Another thought is that the exceptionally low ranked group is very small, and there isn’t actually enough of them to allow quick enough queue times without filling out games with bots.

Try splitgate its basically just old school halo local multiplayer. The portals addition is great

Edit: had the name wrong

Rocket league is the only online competitive game worth it anymore for me at least. I stopped for a few years and saw people complain on forums about bots and toxicity but when I came back it was exactly how I left it, and that was before epic bought it.

I do miss the abusive loot chests since I was an adult and like gambling on them but I understand why they needed to go.

I know a bunch of people already offered but if anyone needs an invite send me a DM and I’ll send you one after work