There have been huge surge of “end is nigh” in these forums and discords.
Servers down. Vague updates. No communication at all. Bugs. Cheaters. Dune is more or less failed. All other Funcom titles are kind of dying. You name it. Who is working with CE anymore. Any names? Does anyone in this forum truly know?
Are we entering into the Age of Killing CE?
All things mentioned before are driving players away. Servers might be the biggest issue. And we are entering into death spiral. How long and CE is gone and killed entirely? Because “players are leaving the game” ← Tencent logic to kill this IP by horrible management like we are experiencing.
I have heard many times and over that: “hey, at least we have offline play”. How fun would it be without any Bazaar/Battlepass/Twitch building sets and items? If it is playable in offline mode? If it is playable!
I argue that CE = FLS. You need online verification to start new game. Proof me wrong and delete [FuncomLiveServices] data from Game.ini. Can you start offline game? Or do you need to log in at least once to start singleplayer offline game? At least I had to. When game doesn’t stop after exiting. Are there still open port to FLS? Because this problem is gone in offline (no internet at all).
I am not sure why Funcom is doing this. Near death company? Tencent planing to make a fusion to kill Funcom? Or did the marketing department had a great idea of replicating The Crew -case. Kill first instalment to market the CE2. Or something that needs tin foil hat to say it aloud.
At least, what Funcom/Tencent is doing is dividing us - the players. There are more and more sentimental outbursts and pickering between players. That is not the way! That is the death spiral!
Are here anybody who is active in Stop Killing Games?
Anyone who is or who knows YouTubers/Streamers that could help us?
Someone from Norway who could investigate: could we get help from Forbrukertilsynet / The Consumer Authority?
Or someone who has any real ideas to bring forth? How to handle this?
I don’t and I’ve already demonstrated it on CEA Discord. YOU don’t seem to be able to start a new game for some reason, but that clearly doesn’t apply to everyone.
What I have tried to ask is: is it possible to open the offline mode without verification from FLS. Meaning you have to be at least once online after installing / updating the game?
My problem was broken ID and I am 99% sure of it. ID can be found inside Game.ini:
[FuncomLiveServices]
CachedUsers= →here lies the FLS ID←
Going online the game loaded and stored the new FLS ID into Game.ini after that previously deleted CachedUsers=.
Then I could plug off my internet caple. And save was loaded like nothing in OFFLINE. So I can open the game offline - that is not the problem.
And as I said in CEA discord. I retested this. Same problem occurred and same solution helped. The question was and still is. Can people replicate this? So have you deleted the FLS ID and tried without it to open the save game in true offline mode? Or have I miss understood the core of this whole thing?
I deleted the whole [FuncomLiveServices] section, unplugged my ethernet cable, launched Conan Exiles and started new game. There was no issue whatsoever.
Made an another file verification. Opened the game. Closed it. Unplugged internet. And this time I deleted the whole section too. Game goes into main menu. No further. “Please restart and try again”.
Back in internet. Started the game. [FuncomLiveServices] was rewriten into Game.ini (this time into the bottom) with new ID token. And offline again. Game starts.
*“FUNCOM RESERVES THE RIGHTS TO SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY, OR DELETE ANY ACCOUNT, SERVICE OR YOUR ACCESS TO THE GAME AT ANY TIME FOR ANY OR NO REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE AND FUNCOM WILL NOT PROVIDE REFUNDS OF VIRTUAL ITEMS OR VIRTUAL CURRENCY. IN THIS EVENT, THIS AGREEMENT WILL TERMINATE IMMEDIATELY.”
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“Also, you authorize us to check your version of the Software and automatically download and install Software upgrades to update, patch, fix, enhance and further develop the Software and Service. Some upgrades may be designed to disable unauthorized access to the Software or delete unauthorized copies of the Software. You will not bypass any automatic update downloads or installations. In addition, you authorize us to monitor or collect certain information from your computer or our servers related to the use or performance of the Game, including to record your gameplay and interactions with other players in the Game. Access to some servers may require the acceptance and use of anti cheat software.”
It doesn’t exclude PlayStation. Or does it @darkpower ?
Please read the OP. This problem is OUR problem. Not just mine.
It is actually problem for whole gaming community. These FLS kind of shit should stop!
And please people test that Game.ini thing mentioned above. We need more samples. Or if someone finds out things from EULA etc. that prove things.
Your logical fallacy is that you believe the population of this forum represents most players or experiences and you also believe that Funcom will listen to you or do as you desire. I don’t have the problem you have. Your view of reality is myopic at best. Nobody will ever get what they want from Funcom, no matter what, and Funcom will never dramatically or gradually get better. PlayStation will never have a .ini issue that players must address. That’s a windows problem, not a PlayStation problem. I can play the game just fine without ever seeing that problem because it can’t exist for the PlayStation console. I agree to the terms if I want to play the game. Anytime you play the game you agree to the terms. If you don’t agree to the terms, fine. It won’t change anything, especially the terms. Strength is not the only thing that comes in numbers. Ignorance does also and even more so.
I am sorry @darkpower but this is not Windows issue at all. This not PC issue at all. If you don’t have this problem in your console. Does it mean that your console is never ever connected to FLS? PC has many tools to monitor what is happening (.ini thing was tool, not problem). Where you get the infomation that EULA/FLS doesn’t affect consoles? Not true at all. Or prove it.
I am not trying to veto to Funcom or just some niche player base that this forum represents or something like that. I have tried and tried to explain that this concerns everyone who playes this game. Every copy is connected to FLS. Even EULA says it quite explicitly and honestly. What I have tried also to clarify and find out: does offline gaming depent on FLS? And what I have tried to proof through .ini and FLS IDs is that CE is integrated and connected to FLS. So it is dependent → game dies with FLS!
There is one who had tested it and had different solution than me. If it is more proof than I have tried to given then OK but I truly hope someone would do it too that we get bigger sampling.
Summa summarum
In the end this is issue in EULA, FLS, Immaterial & property rights and how Funcom will handle situation when it will go down. Does it take CE with it, into grave or not. It seems I can’t clarify this problem. It is not about some wierd gamer niches. It is all of CE players. Check what happend to game called The Crew and why it and some other cases started Stop Killing Games. CE is in the edge falling into that same thing.
Steam Page has a Dec Update planned, Bugs fixes and QoL update.
Clearly not dead…. it does suck they’ve been so damn quiet. Then again… enough users Hound them every time they do post.
Its Capcom Forums all over again. Staff posted, had giggles and laughs, posted memes. Enough people kept being Jerks.. they stopped doing it.
Its never enough…
As for SP offline issue, I’ve brought this up a few times, Its been a issue for awhile now.
Where if I don’t have internet… I have to play offline games, and CE, ad few others.. decided to be Jerks about it. Not to mention the store items you payed for, don’t work offline (DLC do, but ingame store doesn’t)
MH Wilds does this to me, I “have” to go online once, and then I’m good for offline play.
Its Stupid. Not just a Funcom issue. I doubt they’ll change it.
Xbox physical version can be launched whilst disconnected from the internet. Everything that requires FLS verification is unavailable to use - all BLB, BP purchases and Twitch rewards. DLC works fine as it doesn’t require FLS.
I don’t know shit about consoles but sound like it could work. If you start the game on new Xbox. Do you still need to be online or does the game just start. Problem with PC is that what ever you do, you must first have to verify your game before you can play (EULA says that too ).
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