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Ubisoft holds firm in The Crew lawsuit: You don’t own your video games (www.polygon.com)
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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.09-191645/https://www.polygon.com/gaming/555469/ubisoft-holds-firm-in-the-crew-lawsuit-you-dont-own-your-video-games

Ubisoft responded to California gamers’ The Crew shutdown lawsuit in late February, filing to dismiss the case. The company’s lawyers argued in that filing, reviewed by Polygon, that there was no reason for players to believe they were purchasing “unfettered ownership rights in the game.” Ubisoft has made it clear, lawyers claimed, that when you buy a copy of The Crew, you’re merely buying a limited access license.

“Frustrated with Ubisoft’s recent decision to retire the game following a notice period delineated on the product’s packaging, Plaintiffs apply a kitchen sink approach on behalf of a putative class of nationwide customers, alleging eight causes of action including violations of California’s False Advertising Law, Unfair Competition Law, and Consumer Legal Remedies Act, as well as common law fraud and breach of warranty claims,” Ubisoft’s lawyers wrote.

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[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've spent well over $2k on guitars, accessories, DLC, etc, for Rocksmith 2014. For five years I've been using it to learn bass guitar, and absolutely love it.

One day Ubi is going to turn off the servers, and I am simply going to cry.

There is no alternative I'm aware of, the new version is AI garbage from what I've heard, and I enjoy the thing I have and the songs I've paid for.

If they are not going to provide an offline mode, or the server code, then I will 100% make it my mission to pirate the game and make it playable offline.

[–] HATEFISH@midwest.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why not do it now, there's nothing stopping you from buying the whatever new content you want and importing it. Why wait for them to take it away from you?

[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Honestly? I'm lazy. I play on my PS4, and have it all done up for that, the cables, pre amp, audio D-A for the sound bar / headphones, etc. Its what I know, and it works.

Haven't owned my own PC in like 20 years (I'm a programmer and work always just gives me a beautiful laptop).

I recently bought a gaming PC that was top of the line 5 years ago, and am slowly turning that into a linux gaming PC. It's going to be a while before I can actually use it, and in the mean time the PS4 still works when I get home and just want a whiskey and jam night.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

A quick search found multiple pirated versions of rocksmith, you might already be able to do the last part of your post.