Ubisoft Sellout - Bankruptcy Speedrun Any% Thread

Anachronistic2 said:
On the one hand, a 17.5 hour video is autism on a nuclear scale. On the other hand, it's a video making fun of Ubisoft for 3/4 of a day which will definitely provide a few laughs.
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Plus you can get the general plot within the first hour and see how stupid the thing actually is even just from a narrative standpoint. There's some shit that's so questionable it makes you wonder if the writers had ever even watched Star Wars before.
 
I'm a little late for this, but I did a quick search of this thread (and the accursed farms and piratesoftware threads), and I'm pretty sure nobody has really talked about this yet. So screw it, I'm talking about it now.

Remember The Crew 1 and how that shut down? And how that kicked off the entire Stop Killing Games movement? It's been out since mid-September, but there's now a fully offline version of The Crew.
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I've downloaded this myself and can confirm that it's fully playable, with the only really weird caveat I had being that the game skipped the story introduction and started me right before the first race. Other than that, I didn't have any issues with playing this.

One of the more interesting revelations that emerged from the development of this custom server emulator is that Ubisoft actually programmed The Crew 1 in a way where if your PC clock is set to any date after June 2029, the game outright refuses to work. Is this a glaring oversight or Ubisoft putting in an intentional expiration date in the game? Probably both? Regardless, this was fixed in their latest patch for the server emulator.
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If you're interested in trying it out yourself, you can go grab your own "totally legitimate" copy of the game, or just grab this preconfigured version on the Internet Archive. There's also the PitCrew mod launcher that allows you to inject mods into your copy. Here are the mods I'd personally recommend grabbing for yourself:
-No Intro Mod: removes the long intro and logos and drops you straight to the menu.
-OG Main Menu: restores the title screen and menu to how it looked in the original 2015 release, not the later updates.
-Buyable DLC cars and Uplay/League rewards: make all the locked cars and cosmetics buyable from the in-game dealers.
-Unlock Visual Customization Options: unlocks the visual upgrades on cars that previously had them locked
 
Pinball 2000 said:
One of the more interesting revelations that emerged from the development of this custom server emulator is that Ubisoft actually programmed The Crew 1 in a way where if your PC clock is set to any date after June 2029, the game outright refuses to work. Is this a glaring oversight or Ubisoft putting in an intentional expiration date in the game?
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That sounds like straight up malicious code design, there's no way no actual programmer didn't catch such an egregious error, but at the same time, this was late 2010s Ubisoft where they were more interested in shilling UPlay (now Ubisoft connect) and pumpping out Ass Creed sequels, so maybe it was a mandate from the higher ups?
 
<3 norafawn said:
This is an awesome fix. Is there any information on how this bug was discovered? (Sorry for autism posting, shit’s interesting ok)
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My understanding is that this issue has been in the game since it first launched, and it's simply not been a problem yet because nobody would have any reason to set their computer clock past June 2029. Regardless, the issue is fixed now, so this game is now essentially future-proofed.
 
Damn it's almost like piratesoftware had no idea what he was talking about when he said creating private servers was impossible without exposing all the company's secrets
 
I always wanted to play the game, glad it's possible now. If we can get mods working now, I wonder what else is possible to edit in the game. Ross mentioned in his videos that the night driving bothered me, personally I would love to see the map more true to life(bigger cities, more monuments ect). The cringy story mode can also be reworked somehow, honestly this does have potential to be a dream game if the community pulls together some sort of editor or means to easily edit the game.
 
Ghostse said:
You think you hate game companies, but you don't hate them nearly enough.
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The fact they say "prevented year 29k bug" in patch notes makes me want to both laugh and cry. I think thats intentional because why the fuck would you even do that on accident?

the year 1999 was FAMOUS for this, you don't do crazy date shit which is unstable in the forseeable future.
 
Pinball 2000 said:
One of the more interesting revelations that emerged from the development of this custom server emulator is that Ubisoft actually programmed The Crew 1 in a way where if your PC clock is set to any date after June 2029, the game outright refuses to work. Is this a glaring oversight or Ubisoft putting in an intentional expiration date in the game? Probably both?
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I'd be willing to bet it was intentional.

Game came out in 2014, was tied to it's online bullshit. If the game were successful enough to have a playerbase lasting that long(15 years) it's likely that the devs would have have moved onto something else and thus not be available to provide support for the game making it an easy "weird, it doesn't work anymore guess we need to shut it down" excuse regardless of the remaining size of the player base.

There might be some other games from that era with this time bomb to just mysteriously not work and be blamed on OS updates or something "out of our control" that they just wouldn't bother to fix. So not even planned obsolescence, a planned expiration date to use as an excuse to shut it down.
 
so if a couple of fans can develop a server emulator that works fully offline, what's ubisoft's excuse when they have hundreds of employees and they actually have the sourcecode to the game.
 
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