cb5c01 No.13804153
>EA killed Battleforge after 4 years
>they also killed NFS world after 5 years
>The Crew is already 3 years old
>pic related
Are we gonna do anything for when The Crew dies? Server emulator? Anything? This game is at death's door, and still pretty popular, it would be a shame to see it go like the others, I would help, really I would, but I'm powerless, the most advanced thing I've ever programmed was a tower defense map editor, how about we either:
1) Somehow get Ubisoft to make plans for when the game goes down, which you can approach in different ways
1.1) Release the source code of the server software so that the community can host it somewhere
1.2) Sell it off to a company that is willing to keep it alive
2) Start reverse engineering the server software so that we can have the server being hosted by the community and still be able to play the game
This seems far fetched, I know, but look at EVE online and how it already has an emulator, even though the server is still alive (I think)
1b0723 No.13804163
>he bought The Crew
Go fuck yourself.
cb5c01 No.13804178
>>13804163
I actually got it for free last year
cb5c01 No.13804194
>>13804178
Or this year, can't remember when that Uplay giveaway was
e6bd3a No.13804210
>>13804153
>This seems far fetched, I know, but look at EVE online and how it already has an emulator, even though the server is still alive (I think)
What are you on about, EVE is nearly 15 years old and massively popular, of course it has private servers.
cb5c01 No.13804228
>>13804210
OK so it's not as young as I thought, still, it's no reason to not have an emulator working for lesser known games, if the company has no plans for when it goes down (and I bet Ubisoft don't, otherwise there wouldn't be a "The Crew 2")
8cc9cf No.13804242
>>13804153
>LET'S STOP KILLING GAMES
Try telling (((them))) that anon, they don't actually play games do they?
160bdb No.13804256
cb5c01 No.13804296
>>13804281
No, games like these died because they pulled the plug on them, they weren't dying, or lacked users, they were still very popular, NFS world even has a semi-working emulator now called soapbox
ac5d86 No.13804312
>>13804281
Games die because a sequel is already developed and you got to pull the plug for there to be demand for it. Can't sell the totally new and improved cookie cutter game when people still play the old one.
5cc923 No.13804353
Servers cost money to keep up.
cb5c01 No.13804360
>>13804312
This is stupid, by this logic we should wipe off the face of the earth anything that has a second version of it coming out, like commodores, or apple IIs, the original ghostbusters etc. We should stop this practice somehow, it' REALLY detrimental to gaming
cb5c01 No.13804364
>>13804353
What part of "release the source code" did you not understand?
d20516 No.13804393
>The Crew is already 3 years old
this cannot be.
f1dada No.13804397
>>13804364
>What part of "release the source code" did you not understand?
>Saying this while they killed the group keeping 2142 and bf2 alive
You're either a really optimistic person or a retard.
36402c No.13804407
>>13804397
There's been a surprising amount of devoted backlash to this shit. More so than usual. The problem is normalfags refuse to understand.
79cca6 No.13804414
>>13804153
>LET'S STOP KILLING GAMES
NO
THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY MUST DIE
fb85c3 No.13804487
>>13804153
>Playing online games.
I have never felt more vindicated than this year in my policy of only buying physical, offline, single-player games.
f1dada No.13804541
>>13804407
>The problem is normalfags refuse to understand.
So just like any other day for the past 10 or so years?
ceff3d No.13804593
>EA killed Battleforge after 4 years
>It was made by the Spellforce devs
>It was turned into P2W trash
>Probably upper management retardation
>It actually looked like it had potential
b008fc No.13804829
>>13804228
Setting aside MMO's, even most popular games with multiplayer components have only a small diehard playerbase left after they even manage to revive it, which is already rare.
What makes you think EA or Ubisoft has any interest in letting players set up their own servers in the first place? We already know EA doesn't want that to happen.
>it's no reason to not have an emulator working for lesser known games
It is though. There's a lot of effort that goes into those projects. You're just another dude who's hoping for someone else to put in the work. That's fine, the people who actually can and want to are a minority. But at least don't have unrealistic dreams of nice things happening.
You're only setting yourself up for disappointment.
a8b012 No.13804995
Sorry Ross, but they're not going to stop killing until someone kills them.
198963 No.13805009
The Jew will be killed off so (((they))) can push The Jew 2 which after a year or so will be made free as it will be a F2P game sold as a $60 title. Like pottery.
c1e770 No.13805021
>>13804153
> Battlefield
> NFS world
> The Crew
how about you stop being a faggot and starts playing gud games?
> lets stop killing games
eg, its at first the publisher fault for aiming for shit design and maximazing their shekels out of the dumb audience like you
but mostly important, it the fault of the audience to keep supporting and throwing shekels at them with every shit new title, you're the ones killing off originality in support of franchises
7ceea4 No.13805076
>>13804153
>Let's stop killing games.
Ross, is that you? I didn't know you posted here.
Big fan, btw.
ceff3d No.13805256
>>13805076
I doubt it's him. He said he found the chans to be too chaotic in one of his vids Am I the only one who is disappointed freemans mind took off like wildfire while his better material like game dungeon has modest success
cb5c01 No.13806528
>>13805021
My dude i paid exactly 0 shekels for the crew
a620cf No.13806530
cb5c01 No.13806531
>>13805076
No I'm not, just a really devoted fan
b80edd No.13806551
>>13804153
But games are a service goys!
ab65c4 No.13806585
>>13804228
>OK so it's not as young as I thought
The reason EVE has survived this long is because it pre-dates World of Warcraft, and thus wasn't chasing the dragon like everyone else afterwards was. I'm amazed you didn't know that. Must be the newer graphics engine, the classic graphics are long gone.
458a96 No.13806680
>LET'S
>LET US
Anon, you're not part of them. They make the decisions, not you.
fd8db0 No.13807093
>>13804153
what you want is for ea to go away. ea doesnt just kill games, they kill entire studios, and even a genre or two.
d87c7d No.13807231
>99.999% of online server functions are identical across all games
>universal network code that can handle arbitrary numbers of different games doesn't exist
>even different games using the same engine can't share servers without hacky modding
5c3314 No.13807237
>>13804153
>Are we gonna do anything
>nu /v/ doing anything
36402c No.13807345
>>13805256
Ross wouldn't sound this much like a faggot and he wouldn't hide behind anonymous to tackle goals. he pretty much HAS to make freemans mind content for his fans, they're paying him after all
4dffd3 No.13807384
>>13804360
>by this logic we should wipe off the face of the earth anything that has a second version of it coming out
This is literally what the kikes do
Look up planned obsolescence. Have you been living under a rock?
6866d1 No.13807406
>Guild Wars 1 servers are still up
2e4ecc No.13807407
>>13807237
You kikes sure do get triggered easily.
cfed8b No.13807447
You gotta assassinate pic related.
a5dabd No.13807577
>>13804153
>LET'S STOP KILLING GAMES
-Social gamer posting from a cuckshed
5c691f No.13807598
And Final Fantasy XI still has servers going. Years and years after that fucking game started.
It takes hardly anything for these games to keep a server up, which is part of why there was the criticism against WoW for not just doing a classic server.
03a775 No.13807627
>>13804153
You're not making a good point with those kind of games, they're disposable because they're shallow, they're designed to be played a set amount of time and be forgotten so they can push their next game
60ffcf No.13807653
>wanting AAA trash to live
I'm helping kill many series I once loved because I refuse to buy their shattered remains.
If you actually want vidya to improve you need to find good devs making good games and give them you money instead of the major players that pump out trash.
>inb4 can't find these games
Put in some fucking effort instead of waiting for commercials to tell you want to buy.
Personally I recommend "Syrian Warfare", "A Hate in Time" and "Pillars of Eternity" as smaller studio gold.
b008fc No.13807679
>>13807447
I'm convinced these people will forever look the other way and say "Oh well, it's not that bad.".
cfed8b No.13808209
>>13807679
This is why they need to be assassinated for the greater good.
c65def No.13808267
>>13807653
Thats wrong, killing off games is like erasing culture, plus I never actually gave my money to ubishit, I got it for free in a giveaway, also I have tons of good games supporting good studios: path of exile, serious sam, hotline miami etc.
bad742 No.13808292
>>13807653
>recommending A Commie in Time
>>>/leftypol/
c65def No.13808303
>>13807384
Ok then let me throw my copy game of thrones season 1 into the meat grinder because i already have season 2 and it's older than 4 years
4dffd3 No.13808318
>>13808303
>Ok then let me throw my copy game of thrones season 1 into the meat grinder
You already threw decades of sword and sorcery related media.
Do you really think Game of Thrones is going to be remembered in a few more years?
fd8db0 No.13808365
>>13808292
ever triggered by lolis, arent we /pol/?
60ffcf No.13808520
>>13808267
>killing off games is like erasing culture
No, letting a series fade away is kinder than dragging around its zombie corpse.
The king quest series will never be "erased culture" because they are preserved, the same can't be said for CoD which was a great series once and is now a running joke.
cb5c01 No.13808646
>>13808520
I'm not saying drag it in the mud, I'm saying don't just pull the plug on a game which is online-only without making plans for when it goes down
75df2d No.13808647
>>13808520
Games like CoD and BF are actively attempting to re-write history. Black female nazi's, black female russian soldiers, etc. Children do play these games and think "this is kind of how it was in real life". Children are dumb, they don't know any better. School systems are failing. So when a game comes out explicitly titled "World War 2" you'd think it would actually have some fucking relation to the historical event of which it's named after.
cb5c01 No.13808655
>>13808520
Also, what you're saying is different a game can still be very alive without thousands of sequels (e.g. jazz jackrabbit, battleforge, meinkampf, hotline miami, serious sam, half-life etc.)
cb5c01 No.13808664
>>13808520
So just because they stopped making sequels that doesn't mean the game fades away, if it's good enough it will be remembered for years to come.
60ffcf No.13808712
>>13808646
>don't just pull the plug on a game which is online-only
Agreed, if they aren't complete cunts they will release the dedicated server files so people can host it themselves.
>>13808647
We were all kids once and thought stupid vidya / movie / TV shit was realistic, just like us before the kids of tomorrow will realize it's bullshit in time.
>>13808655
>>13808664
I never said anything about killing off old games, how would that even work? I'm saying that many series I once loved (TES, Fallout, Doom, SimCity ect.) have turned to complete shit and I would rather see the series end and something else replace it than see it's name dragged though the mud.
cb5c01 No.13808743
>>13808712
Ending a series is not the same as ending a game's life prematurely, which is what EA has been doing with battleforge and NFS world
cb5c01 No.13808750
>>13808712
What I'm saying is, I'd rather see a game die out naturally (and even then, be preserved for historical reasons) than being murdered
60ffcf No.13808772
>>13808743
>>13808750
I get your point but fail to understand why you are still playing Ubi / EA games when you know they pull this shit every fucking time. They want to removed your ability to play the game because they are about to announce something similar and want you to buy that, and you will because you keep falling for it.
cb5c01 No.13808789
>>13808772
Because as I've mentioned it already in >>13808267 and >>13804178, I never actually gave my money to ubishit to get the crew in the first place, anyway, I got it from that ubisoft giveaway where they gave away blood dragon as well as rayman origins
73f95f No.13808848
>>13804153
From kikepedia:
>A sequel, The Crew 2, is scheduled to be released worldwide in early 2018.
So The Crew will be shut down in early 2018.
Does anyone have a WORKING pirate copy of The Crew or Fuel?
cb5c01 No.13809550
>>13808848
Pirating The Crew won't do jack shit, because the AI routines and all that shit are stored on the server so when they shut down you'll end up with a lobotomized game, which will be unplayable, unless we figure out how to emulate the server like I said in the OP
b78df8 No.13809699
>>13808848
I do have a working cracked copy of Fuel if you're serious.
6ddf44 No.13809765
Fuck you for reminding me about battleforge, that fan revival thing better be good
cb5c01 No.13810484
>>13809699
nice dubs there anon :^)
b78df8 No.13812300