I believe its still the rookie group doing it, its automated well too and I even got it to work on linux.

I was being sarcastic, my bad. How does this convince me people who bought the crew were deceived?

If someone’s part of the “public” then its provided to them for 0$, thats the deal. If they are an adult in that area they might pay for it in taxes, but most places won’t limit access to local taxpayers. There is nothing underhanded happening there. Its provided for a group of people and those people use it within the guidelines setup for them.

Im sure you will have as little to say in your next reply but do try to actually make a point.

Its literally a protection for those who create art or science. You are arguing what you think the spirit of the law is vs. what it functionally does. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Its not a privilege, its a protection for artists. There is nothing that says they have any responsibilities to their work after the copyright expires. I’m not sure where you got this privilege thing from.

It will be available in the public domain once the copyright expires, in the case of the crew.

Feel free to make another racing MMO and call it whatever you’d like though.

Sounds pretty fair to me.

Well let me go back to 2005 and tell young me that I only own a license to WoW so I can say “no shit idiot” and slap my future self. If you were deceived that’s on you.

You can’t steal from nature. Parks are provided for the public, its literally the whole point.

Any more gotchas?

You are implying its about server costs then? Activision sunset the crew because they had been developing the crew 2 for a long time. It had to come out eventually. Allowing third party hosting of the crew would have cost them a lot of money. Why should they take a loss in that situation?

Well right now it no longer exists and its not in the public domain so noone is allowed to recreate it. Once it enters public domain, it will be legal to recreate it. I don’t think its on the company to prop up everyone else after they no longer have ownership of the IP. Servers have been reverse engineered before, and in WoW classics case, they brought in the indie devs who were doing it to help them recreate the game again for real.

Quick run down?

Won’t it still eventually go into public domain whether the servers are running or not? Then any company would be free to remake the game or use the IP?

They shouldnt be required to do anything with it. Theres no public safety issue that requires it be maintained, its just a game. You also seem to imply making money from creating a game is immoral. This whole “art” belongs to everyone thing is stupid and only hurts artists.

Do people not literally have the crew on disk? There you go, they own it.

Depends if you see theft as someone taking something they didnt pay for or earn, or if you see it as someone depriving someone else of their property, or both of them count.

I’d argue both qualify as theft, and pirating is the first case. Just because you can replicate something for free (which is not the case with software) does not mean you are entitled to it.

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

Why weren’t people upset when they first bought the game and realized they needed to be online to play it then? Why did it only become a talking point after the fact? You could argue it was shitty to make it a network only game and I might agree, but to say people were deceived and didnt realize it couldn’t be played offline until the servers were shutdown is absurd.

I did and have read about it and disagree. I dont think anyone was tricked and thought they’d have the crew forever. This all seems very self entitled in my opinion. Point out any technicalities that you want to, people should have expected the game to be sunset eventually, and that it would be gone after that, just like every other online only game.

Technically right but the game required network access to play anyways so I’m not sure that people were deceived by this as it happened.

I agree woth everything you said but want to add that leaving big open spaces can be an effective design choice. Compare botw to totk and the ambiance changes drastically due to this.