I guess it’s at least nice for preservation, even if little progress has been made on consumer rights.
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Too bad it doesn’t work for console though. Server emulators are almost always PC only, and in some very extremely rare cases, PC and PS3/Original Xbox.
Katana314@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
SARGE@startrek.website 16 hours ago
Yeah I got mildly excited when I read the title, and now I’m just mildly irritated.
Good for pc players though, it’s something!
leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
If you have a PC or Laptop there is a good chance you could get it running, the game is pretty “old” and doesn’t scream for a high end gaming rig. Maybe that would be an option.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yeah, a pc that runs the Crew well would be fairly cheap now. If you can’t just get one donated to you that would otherwise be going to the dump, picking one up from a garage sale or something would be pretty cheap. And you can hook a pc to a TV, set Steam to launch with Windows and enter bigscreen mode when it does. Steam bigscreen mode is used with a controller and has an option to turn off the computer in it’s menu. So you could do without a keyboard and mouse 99% of the time.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 16 hours ago
If the server endpoint is the same you could try a DNS rebind? A pihole or adguard should be able to redirect that and I guess the fan made one is a bit more lenient when it comes to that kinda stuff
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Not for modern Xbox titles, because Xbox online commectivity travels through the Xbox Live API, like Steam games often use Steam’s API. PlayStation never really had a central online service, and if they did it was always garbage/insecure.
Sure, developers could try to emulate modern Xbox Live API, but since it is still currently in active use, Microsoft could easily shut it down like Blizzard does with WoW server emulators all the time.