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Generally when a game goes missing from Steam you can still play it, they just stop selling new copies due to licensing agreements on things like music expiring
by wlesieutre 3y ago
Generally when a game goes missing from Steam you can still play it, they just stop selling new copies due to licensing agreements on things like music expiring.
But The Crew is making news recently for planning to pull the plug on their servers. This will also kill its single-player components because Ubisoft are dicks who made the single-player still require servers.
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-crew-delisted-from-all-digital-storefronts-servers-shut-down-early-2024 https://www.ign.com/articles/the-crew-delisted-from-all-digi...
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoMy household has simple rules: no Ubisoft, no Sony, no Blizz/Activision. It helps that all three have been getting progressively worse over the years.
- bryondowd 3y agoJust out of curiosity, why Sony? Only negative thing I can recall hearing about them is blocking cross play to protect their console lead, which didn't seem too unreasonable to me.
- wlesieutre 3y agoThe Funimation shutdown is Sony Going back further, installing a rootkit on to customer computers to prevent ripping audio CDs
- pixelatedindex 3y agoI think there was a Discovery snafu as well? Like if you bought titles from the Discovery Channel on PSN, you don’t have access to those anymore. But I do think Sony should get a pass here. Or you have to blanket ban all digital goods but that seems detrimental. I understand the feeling though, as I too don’t buy anything digital outside of Steam.
- Hamuko 3y ago>Like if you bought titles from the Discovery Channel on PSN, you don’t have access to those anymore. That was cancelled. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011168/sony-playstation-discovery-shows-not-removed https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011168/sony-playstatio...
- faeriechangling 3y agoI know somebody who has been boycotting them since the rootkit scandal
- breckenedge 3y agoThat was such a terrible move. For people who don’t know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
- serf 3y agoWell, there was the rootkits, the carpet-pull with regards to the PS3 and OS compatibility promises, the lawsuits against geohot, the SWAT raids and lawsuits against graf_chokolo, and now the digital library shit that's going on with Funi just adds to the history.