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Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew (www.polygon.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I doubt anything comes of it, but here's hoping.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pirates have managed to run servers for tons of MMOs. The only thing stopping people from running servers themselves is that they're not made available.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's why companies shutting down online games need to be compelled to open-source or at least provide binaries for their servers.