Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Gamers Must Unite”.
Hi lonis and Luke. What do you think of Ross Scott’s call to action against Ubisoft killing the crew? Do you think we have any chance of preventing future games from being destroyed? Um now I’ve followed this guy for a while um and yeah. So maybe Dan can do this merch message because Luke and I haven’t paid attention to this – I I had had it flagged for me and I’ve seen some Community sentiment around this. That is like that. This is something we need to be supporting, but I hadn’t had a chance this week to dig into it. Yeah I’ve seen his videos, but I I’m not up to date on this yeah.
He had some really good thoughts. I think I hope it was him ages ago about always online games that are single player, that the companies go. Oh well. You know we can’t afford the server upkeep anymore, and so the game that you have paid for you are now no longer able to play, and so a lot of uh a lot of people will take these servers and host them themselves. I know there’s a bunch of different games, that kind of have Community hosted servers and there’s no more dedicated. You know first party ones anymore um, so I think this is probably a call towards that right, a game that lius and I enjoyed to play every now and then is like that. Um SubCom, I don’t remember, what’s Supreme Commander, forged Alliance, forged Alliance or wait forged Alliance forever? Is the the community takeover of the game that was allowed to happen after gas powered games went yeah yeah, but was it? Was it gas powered that? Let them do it? Like some some, there was like a I forget, which party ultimately uh enabled that, but it’s pretty cool and recently I think it’s City of Heroes.
Unfortunately, a lot um and I think the worst offender is probably single player games. Sorry Forge Alliance forever was an example of a good thing, commun Curr trying to talk about good things. I think I think it was City of Heroes that recently just publicly was like yeah people can host their own servers and iterate on the game and everything and good luck – I don’t remember what it was. I might be seeing the wrong one yeah, but there are some few good examples. There are good examples and I think those are probably the outliers in the situation, mostly bad ones. It’S mostly like this yeah um right and and it’s very frustrating, especially because they’re still an active Community, even though they may be small, but they’re still active well yeah. The this blurb here says: um the video game, The Crew. This is on stop killing games.com. This blurb says the game. The crew published by Ubisoft was recently destroyed for all players and had a player base of at least 12 million people. That’S an interesting number, that’s not a small, I’m assuming that was at one point in time. I can’t imagine there’s that many people playing the crew right now, there’s no way they’d be shutting it down, but I mean you might be surprised yeah.
I don’t know due to the game size and France’s strong consumer protection laws. This represents one of the best opportunities to hold a publisher accountable for this action. We are Su if we are successful in charges being pressed against Ubisoft. This will have a ripple effect on the video games industry to prevent Publishers from destroying more games and then there’s like buttons to click where you can take action in in various countries and stuff like that, yeah yeah.
That’S right. I watched his video on the crew about a month ago. It came out Dead game news. Is the series yeah yeah it’s brutal? We talk about on W, show all the time um. This seems like a good thing to jump on the train. For so yeah I mean look I’ll say this is not a creator that I’m person I’m not personally acquainted with, so I don’t um, but you know what I do know is.
I agree with the cause and, if all you’re being asked to do is sign a petition that says that you don’t think this is okay, then I think that’s something that I can wholeheartedly recommend without, like I already said doing any due diligence on this um, I Intend to sign the petition once the show is over and I I can do that. Um yeah. I do think yeah, no I’m busy right now. I I do think that these companies need to be held accountable, and I think that if there are no monetary consequences, not only is nothing ever going to change. It is going to get so much worse, oh yeah, because a lot of especially younger consumers don’t even understand what they’ve lost. Yet even the games that do still exist, the the the the the modes, the ways of playing them – that have changed as games as a service evolve are gone.
I mean think back to think back to what it was like when you finally quit wow and how badly you wanted to just play classic wow again and blizzard. Finally, did it and then my understanding is they kind of bunged it up cuz didn’t they start like updating it again, yeah and like you, you already can’t actually play classic again now because it progress through the expansions. So it’s already so what they need to do is they just need to do like like a wipe system? Yeah there are some. There are other games that do that, like if I remember correctly, EverQuest has a very similar like you can play original, like uh, 1999 EverQuest or whatever it was 2001. I don’t remember, maybe RuneScape was 1999 whatever um and they they wipe frequently and most the active players as far as minor s goes for the Everquest one are on the servers that are fresh because people want to play fresh experiences where everyone’s starting back at scratch. All that type of stuff um but yeah, didn’t the RuneScape speaking of RuneScape. Didn’T the RuneScape Creator just make a new game. Actually you can still play classic era: okay, yeah uh. I think I forgot. That was a thing.
Oh, okay! Well, there you go. I don’t know older school ruinscape yeah is classic era. Wiping, though I don’t think it’s wiping they’re, just permanent servers right, I don’t know whatever either way. .