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Ubisoft have annouinced planned offline modes for The Crew 2/Motorfest, indirectly confirming that the original game is dead and buried forever.


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Also, The Crew 2 is 98% off on Steam (but not the DLC, because fuck you) and The Crew Motorfest is 70% off, which is hilarious for a game that only released in April.
 
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Last Ride said:
Most appropriate thread for this, I think?

Ubisoft have annouinced planned offline modes for The Crew 2/Motorfest, indirectly confirming that the original game is dead and buried forever.


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Also, The Crew 2 is 98% off on Steam (but not the DLC, because fuck you) and The Crew Motorfest is 70% off, which is hilarious for a game that only released in April.
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Ubi for once actually doing a sensible thing due to the backlash, of course it is just as likely they announce it and just delay it indefinitely.
 
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Man, Phantasmagoria 2 is my absolute favorite Game Dungeon, I could rewatch it a hundred times and crack up every time. I'm glad it's still available elsewhere, but fucking hell is this retarded. Ross specifically marked it as age-restricted, presumably also forgoing any monetization of the video, everything was fine and dandy for nearly five fucking years, but now YouTube has a problem? What's the point of age restriction if your video can get pulled down at random at any point, and YouTube won't give you any indication as to why? The sex scenes aren't really anything more than dry humping, and there's blood and gore but the low budget special effects downplay it substantially. Fucking stupid.

As for The Crew, Ubisoft is basically proving Ross's point for him, in that there is no legitimate reason why game developers can't ensure that games that require a central server to function can still be supported when those servers go offline. Now if they'd just do the same for the original game, but that probably won't happen unless they're forced to.

On that note, the EU petition has slowed down since my last post about it about three weeks ago, but it's still chugging along. It's past 350k signatures (65k more than last time), and six countries are over the threshold. The next closest are Belgium and Ireland at about 70% each. If it keeps going at that pace, the petition will end with a reasonably comfortable margin above the total, but it's more likely it'll slow down more without continued attention. I know Ross is going to keep banging the drum on this, but I hope more people do so as well.
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I remember Ross saying that the signatures slowed down significantly, to the point where at this rate they won't make it to the required amount before the deadline. Grim. Could use a boost from some big influencer, no matter whose side he'd be on. In this case any attention is good attention.
 
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I remember Ross saying that the signatures slowed down significantly, to the point where at this rate they won't make it to the required amount before the deadline. Grim. Could use a boost from some big influencer, no matter whose side he'd be on. In this case any attention is good attention.
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Sadly all big gaming influencers are stuck either in culture war retardation, or doing 5 hour videos on some game none of their fans will ever play.
 
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It's been over a year since the last Freeman's Mind episode. I know he's got a lot on his plate with the StopKillingGames thing, but this is starting to get ridiculous. We've entered Ravenholm in May of 2022, mind you, and we're still stuck there. At this rate, Freeman's Mind 2 will last longer than the original season, and that's not accounting for the two episode expansions, if he even plans on doing them by that point.

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I've finished watching the new Halloween episode. I think Ross couldn't be anymore right, what a wasted opportunity. The anime aesthetics didn't grab me, but everything else about the game was top notch...then it turns into a shitty catgirl anime. I don't know where that came from, there might have been an identity crisis during development or somebody really wanted to shoehorn that in, either way it was a bad call. The game should have focused more on the corporate themes or just cut itself short when it started going downhill to finish on a high note.
Interesting point at the end, where Ross says the game should have came out in the 90s. Imagine if instead of Earthbound, this became a cult indie classic and we had Yuppie Psycho clones coming out to this day. Pretty interesting thought exercise.
 
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It's been over a year since the last Freeman's Mind episode. I know he's got a lot on his plate with the StopKillingGames thing, but this is starting to get ridiculous. We've entered Ravenholm in May of 2022, mind you, and we're still stuck there. At this rate, Freeman's Mind 2 will last longer than the original season, and that's not accounting for the two episode expansions, if he even plans on doing them by that point.
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You say this like Ross did Freeman's Mind in a couple of years. He started it in 2007 and ended in 2014, and he started Freeman's Mind 2 in 2017 so we're already 7 years down.

It's true that he is taking too long in terms of productivity, so I won't deny that. But autism aside, it's pretty obvious what videos he prefers to make, so at this point I just watch him for the Game Dungeon stuff. [I would probably get just as stressed if Freeman's Mind 2 was better, but it isn't, so I don't.]
 
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He started it in 2007 and ended in 2014
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Oh believe me, I know. There are people who finished high school/college or got married and had kids in the time it took Ross to finish the first season. He rushed the final few episodes out the door too, but if he took his time with them we could easily see another year or year and a half on top of that.
I'm saying season 2 is slow even by his standard. I cannot imagine he will work on the machinima for much longer, past a certain point he's just going to give up and we will be stuck with an incomplete series. People give Ross slack since he hardly ever makes bad or uninteresting videos, but take a look at it from his perspective: We will be nearing the 20th anniversary of the series soon. have you ever worked on something for 20 years straight? I doubt he wants Freeman's Mind to be his legacy, but what else could it be if it's taking so long? "The Movie?" Just think how much more work on that he could make if he cancelled or finished Freeman's Mind.
I don't want him to rush his videos, the few times he did they turned out horrible. I just wish he had something resembling a schedule, so that he could cut a few corners and release a couple of videos a year, at least. As of now, his only videos you can reliably expect are his Halloween and his Christmas videos, altho he's rapidly running out of games for the latter and that could disappear soon too.
 
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