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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The developers at Ubisoft Ivory Tower announced on December 14th that as of March 31st, 2024 the servers would be shut down and so it will no longer be playable for anyone.

So now YouTuber Ross Scot of Accursed Farms, has launched the Stop Killing Games campaign to try and better highlight the issue.

As noted on the campaign website: "An increasing number of videogames are sold as goods, but designed to be completely unplayable for everyone as soon as support ends.

It is our goal to have authorities examine this behavior and hopefully end it, as it is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media.

It's definitely an interesting and often frustrating issue, especially for games that could seemingly continue to let you play offline without too much trouble.

Definitely a campaign I can get behind though, because I've said for years it's a really poor situation for consumers to have your purchase suddenly stop working forever that you've not just put money into but often a ton of your time.


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[–] Quexotic 1 points 8 months ago