cai@kbin.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable
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8 months agoThe campaign plans to get France’s consumer rights agency to rule against Ubisoft’s killing of The Crew, making game publishers have to leave games at least partially functional when online service ends (or else risk legal action & costs).
France has strong consumer protections, Europe doesn’t treat EULAs as very legally serious, and Ubisoft was selling the game mere months before they “discontinued online service”, which also stopped the single player mode from working.
And France’s consumer protection agency accepts complaints from international customers, too, in English.
So, no, don’t just keep your head down & “play old games”. This is a perfect chance to actually fix shit.
…and, if you actually owned The Crew (20 million people did), even outside of France, the French regulator accepts complaints from international customers. Which is super unusual, and very valuable to the campaign…