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Legendary Half-Life YouTuber plans class-action lawsuit against Ubisoft for killing The Crew
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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Imagine buying a T-shirt, and the manufacturer, without your prior knowledge or consent, could somehow render your shirt unwearable -- that's effectively what's happening here. The only "gray area" might be that ultimately you don't own a copy of the game anyway (since digital copies are effectively leased -- a whole other issue unto itself), but regardless: more power to this lawsuit. Seriously shady shit getting tacitly accepted lately.
"we lost our license to print this brands logo on our shirts, so you have to go e it back now"
Smh
"Imagine everyone moves to electric vehicles, gas stations close down, and people start sueing Ford for releasing a gas car 30 years ago" is the better analogy.
That's a terrible analogy.
It's more like, imagine Fords required a connect to a server to run and they turned that server off, stopping a perfectly functional car you purchased from working.
Then you sued them to force them to make the car work without the server.
What a weird case of simping