A developer behind a fan-made mission designed to resurrect The Crew say it’s not their downside if pirated copies of the sport don’t work with it.
Ubisoft launched The Crew in 2014 however shut down the servers final 12 months, and since it was an online-only sport this rendered it not playable.
The Crew Limitless, which was launched yesterday, is a free fan-made server emulator mission which lets homeowners of The Crew play it once more, both offline (by working a neighborhood server) or on-line (by connecting to the mission’s new public server).
The Crew Limitless works by taking the participant’s unique set up of The Crew and their saved video games, and applies a patch that makes them hook up with an emulated ‘energetic’ server as an alternative of Ubisoft’s deactivated server.
To maintain the mission authorized, the workforce requires that gamers present their very own copy of The Crew, as a result of the workforce isn’t legally allowed to redistribute Ubisoft’s sport.
Whereas anybody who beforehand purchased the sport on Steam is ready to redownload it, gamers who didn’t purchase it earlier than it was delisted are not capable of entry it. As such, some gamers are turning to piracy to accumulate the sport.
Now, on the sport’s official Discord server (as noticed by RPS), the mission’s lead developer Whammy has advised those that downloaded a pirated model of the sport that in the event that they’re having points getting it to work, that isn’t the workforce’s concern.
“After over 10 hours of continuous tech help, it has come to my consideration that a number of you may have acquired (by whichever shady methodology) damaged/corrupted sport information,” Whammy wrote.
“When you have acquired the sport information from shady sources then we’re not answerable for whether or not your sport works or not. Gamers with legit Steam copies have had by far the least points, no marvel.”
“Additionally to those that count on swift 24/7 around-the-clock help for them and them personally – I don’t wish to say impolite issues in bulletins.”
In an ongoing class-action lawsuit filed towards Ubisoft final 12 months for closing down The Crew, Ubisoft has argued that gamers shopping for video video games shouldn’t count on to personal the sport without end.
The plaintiffs declare that as a result of Ubisoft used activation codes for the sport which had 2099 expiry date this implied the sport can be round long-term. Additionally they declare that the sport’s foreign money system meets the authorized necessities to be thought-about a present card, and permitting present playing cards to run out is prohibited in California, the place the swimsuit was filed.
Ubisoft claims that gamers ought to have had no expectation that they have been buying “unfettered possession rights within the sport”.
