It begins. Pirate MEP Patrick Breyer will petition the EU commission regarding the shutdown of 'The Crew' servers preventing the game to be played by people with a legal copy. "G*MERS ARE DEFENDING THEMSELVES"

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/pirates-ask-eu-commission-to-look-into-killing-of-video-games/

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It's okay, bb. It's only the internet. _sus 6mo ago #6239873

>costs nothing

That's assuming that relinquishing code or whatever that may be required to get the game to run on any server would cost the company $0.

Next gaymers would be demanding free customer support for life whenever their shitty server game craps out.

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Ubie 6mo ago #6239906

That's assuming that relinquishing code or whatever that may be required to get the game to run on any server would cost the company $0.

that's what they got paid for. they didn't hand out the game for free.

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It's okay, bb. It's only the internet. _sus 6mo ago #6239939

Wrong. Looks like you agree they should charge higher prices to compensate for future EU tardation.

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Ubie 6mo ago #6240112 Edited 6mo ago

they should charge higher prices to compensate for future EU tardation.

Keeping a server running costs less than $10k per year, which includes an hour per week for some employee to do minimal maintenance (periodically run a back up and restart, replace a broken hard drive etc).

If it cost $100M to develop the game, keeping it alive for an additional 10 years, increases that cost by 0.1%, they can recoup that by increasing the price from $59.99 to $60.05. And if it's still playable, people will keep buying it -- not many, not for a lot of money, but more than $10k per year.

The actual reason why game companies make their old games unplayable is to force gaymers to buy new games. That's the real cost of keeping the old game alive: losing 10% of the sales for Ubisoft's new racing game when it's exactly the same as the old one.