Ubisoft Is Taking Away Your Games...

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PSA: if you own the crew, consider taking action.
https://www.stopkillinggames.com
- I keep misreading that URL as "stockpiling games."
- Just submitted a complaint to the French DGCCRF

I've sunk hundreds of dollars into Rocksmith 2014 on ps4 to learn to play the bass.
The game, DLC songs, two guitars,as preamp, and cables.
I absolutely love it, and feel I am still getting better over time.
It so saddens me to know that one day Ubisoft will shit down the servers and a that investment will go to waste.
From everything I've read Rocksmith+, their subscription model new version, just sucks in comparison to 2014, and I hate that their answer to people wanting to play games they ready own is "Well, just play the new one".
Loved farcry 2, 3, and 5, hated farcry 6.
While I'll always be able to play 2 and 3 from disc on my PS3, 5 will one day crap out as well I'm sure.
Companies who take servers required for single player games offline should be required to either patch the game, or release the server source code.
- I was going to try again assassins creed a few years ago but it needed an Ubisoft account and to accept tracking to just open the single player game, I haven’t touched Ubisoft since.
- I just tried playing Rocksmith 2014 the other day and the fucking thing wouldn't even start. I tried applying a Beta patch to roll back to an earlier version: it started but wouldn't recognize the realtone cable. I'm getting a bit old to spend so much time debugging a game I paid for (twice) just to get it to operate. and I am NOT buying Rocksmith+ because I shouldn't fucking have to.
- Why not Farcry 1? It was amazing, and it would have been the best game of the year if not for HL2. I guess you're omitting it because this was pre-Ubisoft.

It has been confirmed that The Crew does have a hidden offline play capability:
I can now confirm that local save data functionality is indeed built into all our copies and is not absent from the game, we have even obtained a sample save data file. This + the fact that we literally see offline mode in action in the prologue means that there 100% is an offline mode, if anyone was doubting at this point.
Save data dumper has been released to allow dumping your save data that can be used to play offline with a mod later:
Yes. a server emulator for offline play is in development by r00t0.
The save file dumped from ubisoft servers and is planned to be used for the offline mod so no progress will be lost.
However, you only have a limited time, after 31 march the servers will go down and your save file will be forever lost.
And now Ubisoft has deleted the game from everyone's account...

"You wouldn't delete someone elses game from their library!"

I'm a simple man. If a game is DRM free, I buy (looking at GOG). If a game is indie, I buy. If a game is an anti-cheat infested AAA "blockbuster", I go sailing.
With MMO-like games and "live service" I understand that the value is in the "now" and that the game is worthless in the future. I loved Destiny once upon a time, but now I avoid all of them.
- “Worthless in the future” isn’t really right even for mmos tho. Just depends what sort of person you are.
  I mean if someone can spin up their own server and just play with a group of friends (maybe 10-20 people?) that’s basically the bulk of the game’s content available. Sure, stuff like PuG, auction house, etc. won’t have any value but… in my experience those are such minor parts of the games most of the time as to be trashable.
  Personally I would prefer playing mmos with a small dedicated group I know over the public at large. Well populated servers tend to be a miserable experience for people who want a group game but not a public group. Even if you stick to your own guild, people in the world are assholes on purpose whenever they can be.
  So I’m strongly of the opinion that any game requiring a server should have a server spin-up utility launched free when the official servers go down. At least give people the option.
  
  I perma-quit WoW after 19 years (did a privacy deletion of my entire account), but I would no joke spin-up a local server for my family to play "offline".
  Not exactly what you said since it's still quite active, but still.

- Good luck pirating the crew. You can't without a (not existing) server emulator, since it requires a centralized server.
  That's the whole point why this is a big deal.

Ubisoft is cancer, but this guy is so abrasive I stopped watching.
He's got valid points, but his delivery sucks. Maybe that's just me being a geezer and out of touch with the "Hey guys" YouTube personality trend
- Yeah, completely agree. YouTube commodified a certain style, people tend to copy it even when they're not great communicators, and the whole excitement akin to a Labrador salivating is quite undignified.

Laughs in GOG.com
- Can you still play the crew if you bought it there (you probably even couldn't get it there in the first place?
  The game is actively being killedby Ubisoft pulling the plug on an unnecessary server component.
  
  No idea, I didn't mean directly for The Crew, just getting DRM-free games. Anything that depends on a server is obviously still subject to the company's whims, but at least I won't get my account deleted and lose my library of games.

Class action lawsuit anyone?

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