Spintires - Free Upgrade to Mudrunner/Snowrunner + Not Working/No Store?

[Petdevils]

Hi

I paid for Spintires but the store page is gone and it will not download properly and install?

I don't have a previous installation so that's not it

In light of this - shouldn't we be given new keys for Mudrunner/Snowrunner so we can continue to play the game we've already purchased?

BTW - any advice on getting Spintires to finally install? Says Missing Downloaded Files even though it shows completed Download?

Cheers

[Bobby]

Originally posted by Petdevils:

Hi

I paid for Spintires but the store page is gone and it will not download properly and install?

I don't have a previous installation so that's not it

In light of this - shouldn't we be given new keys for Mudrunner/Snowrunner so we can continue to play the game we've already purchased?

BTW - any advice on getting Spintires to finally install? Says Missing Downloaded Files even though it shows completed Download?

Cheers

Your answer is no.
Oovee is responsible for spintires not Saber/Focus.
Oovee has been taken to the courts for copyright/IP infringement. Hence why the game was taken down for a year now. You can download all content for spintires if you go to the forum and check the threads there’s links there directly to the game and DLC.

Verify files and/or delete and try again. Check the spintires forum for help

[Desync]

This game is totally different than Spintires. This games devs got jealous of spintires and filed some legal actions against Oovee and got his game taken down. Even tho these devs stole all their ideas from Spintires.

[Bobby]

Originally posted by Desync:

This game is totally different than Spintires. This games devs got jealous of spintires and filed some legal actions against Oovee and got his game taken down. Even tho these devs stole all their ideas from Spintires.

Don't spread malicious lies. Read up before spouting garbage! Pavel was the creator of Spintires -not Oovee.
Oovee was nothing but a publisher that provided backing, when they/he felt like it, but couldn't produce anything without a developer.
Pavel went to mudrunner/Saber/Focus https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/how-one-mans-love-for-spinning-tyres-birthed-mudrunner/ after a financial dispute with Oovee.
MudRunner was made with a *Temp* license from Oovee because Oovee wouldn't do what fans wanted with the game -Cab view,full controller support and DLC.


IP infringements are serious. If Oovee refused to take notice of papers served on them for infringement- just like modders using internal models or content- it's not tolerated because it's not theirs to do what they like unless it's in the license.
The result is nothing to do with your childish jealousy statement, it was removed because there was enough evidence in the first instance -be it refusing legal paperwork served on them or for not taking out copyright material from the game, for the judge to remove the game from sale. Yes it's in the courts and has been for a year. (it's on the internet for all to see)
If oovee come to an agreement then it would have been settled a long time ago. But previously Zane (Oovee is away with another guy setting up another online PC software selling -not games) so unfortunately this classic has been let down by incompetence, rather than a publisher with games at their hearts.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-02-24-the-bumpy-road-of-spintires-development it goes back 6 years.
We would have had ST2/3 by now -just like MR and SR season 1/2 has been made.
Pavel was the utter genius behind Spintires -don't forget that. If a half decent publisher had come along then history would have been different.
Instead it's written in the courts and a great game's future has been ruined by one Oovee

[Unster]

Spintires is not a "free upgrade" to MR/SR. All 3 are separate games. MR/SR is made by Saber. ST is made by Oovee.

Originally posted by Brian the Snail:

for the judge to remove the game from sale.

You are speculating too much and trying to be an expert on something you are not. The game is still sold, just no longer developed and the Steam store page is removed, but you can still buy the game, even on Steam.

[Licopolis]

Originally posted by Unster:

You are speculating too much and trying to be an expert on something you are not.

He's right in the most part, publisher got an argument with the developer, and then suddenly after an update Spintires becomes broken. They say Pavel put some sort of a logical bomb into the code. Eventually Pavel and Oovee agreed on something, and the idea continued as Mudrunner.
I believe I've seen a magister's paper on the simulation of the mud that's behind the whole Spintires thing, so most likely it wasn't Oovee who requested the development, and the IP is not their, unless Pavel sold it as a whole thing and not just a license.

[Unster]

Oovee definitely holds some of the IP. This is evidenced by them holding a patent for ST at the USPTO. Oovee is not a publisher. I see that being said by many people. Oovee is the developer of ST. Pavel worked for them before he worked for Saber where he made MR.

[Petdevils]

Not interested in this thread diverging into an ip fight... I think you've mostly answer my question though - so thank you