After 350,000 signatures in an EU consumer rights campaign, Ubisoft is adding offline modes to The Crew games - but not the now-dead original

stardust , 6 hours ago

I want Crew 1 offline more than the others because it has an actual single player campaign.

Beaver , 5 hours ago

Looks like Ubisoft didn’t get enough pressure.

Beaver , 6 hours ago

And the corporate supporters told us the petition was pointless 🤡

penquin , 6 hours ago

Never listen to those fucking asses.

tfw_no_toiletpaper , 5 hours ago

The pirate something guy was the only one I saw and he’s a fraud anyway

Beaver , 5 hours ago

Guy had Pierre Poilierve energy. Acting like the free market is perfect and that corporations will never screw people over and that by holding them accountable games will become unprofitable to make and that would the end of the game industry /s

Voyajer , 5 hours ago

Him, ThePrimeagen, and Theo Browne were the biggest ones I saw, with various levels of bad arguments.

hoshikarakitaridia , 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago)

Why is Pirate Software a fraud?

I appreciated his take on it. Don’t trust politicians to come up with a good solution, always present the issue when you have a good solution ready. And the solution proposed by that petition was weak at best and outright dangerous for the industry at worst.

If you want to force specificity on buying v getting limited time access, that’s fine, but that’s not what the petition focused on.

If you wanna force devs to plan ahead with huge infrastructure cost to make sure servers will be online for a specific time, this might result in online games being unjustifiable for smaller studios.

If you want to shield independent people hosting unofficial servers to games, now that’s a different conversation that we first need to have to figure it out, before proposing an exact solution through a petition. Mind you this is a more complicated topic, as this gets into licensing and IP law.

And I really don’t think stop killing games is clear on those, and that makes this endeavor a lottery with the entire multiplayer games industry in limbo.

Give me another more precise initiative and I’ll join, but until then I’ll definitely not sign anything. If we change things, we should change them for the better, so let’s do our due diligence first.

ImplyingImplications , 1 hour ago

Once again. No government intervention required. Companies listen to consumers.

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helenslunch , 1 hour ago

They’re not listening to consumers. Consumers are not complaining to the corporations, they’re complaining to the government. They’re only doing anything because the writing is clearly on the wall and passing new legislation will make shit way worse for them so they’re being proactive.

absquatulate , 51 minutes ago

Sadly I doubt this was thanks to the petition itself. More likely ubi is trying to claw back some goodwill ( and make some cash too, by promoting the title that was full of mtx instead of the retired one ). They’ve also done this offline fix thing in the past ( with anno 2070 for one ) and also after a healthy dose of player backlash.

RandomStickman , 5 hours ago

Hey, it's not nothing! A small step towards to the right direction

scripthook , 5 hours ago

This is why I got a PS3. Most games run off disc. One update no more than 60GB and hundreds of offline games. I hate online play