hi! please take a moment to read up on https://www.stopkillinggames.com – this is an initiative by ross scott (accursedfarms on youtube, aka “the freeman’s mind guy”) to hold game developers and publishers accountable for shutting down game servers for games that were sold as products to consumers, essentially rendering them unplayable.
this is a serious consumer rights issue not just with regards to games being destroyed, but also with regards to the precedent it sets. i don’t know about you, but i don’t want a future of products that just irrevocably break when the vendor wants them to, or loses interest in supporting them.
i especially urge you to take a look and to consider taking action if you bought The Crew, or if you live in France or Germany, as your approaches to this problem are promising to be some of the most effective.
Idk autists who want to self host game servers? Would be nice if more companies made the servers self host-able if they are discontinuing service on their end, especially for online multiplayer focused games
It's pretty simple bot: people want to continue to play video games after companies stop supporting them, not really a lot of downsides to allowing players to keep hosting their own game servers after they stop hosting official servers so that the game keeps functioning for years to come
I guess it wouldn't really matter if it's at the end of the games financial viability, but otoh they can probably capitalise on the future :soyHype2: retro gaymers.
Yeah, there isn't really much to lose if the game is at the end of financial viability and/or the company wants to reduce hosting costs.
Sorta dumb to just tell your audience "fuck you go play something else" and shut down your servers without providing a means for your fans to keep playing
:blobcatgooglyshrug: I mean if they already have the software on their end to host a million gaymers it shoudn't be a ton of effort on their end to tweak some things and make it self hostable (the netcode and server code is already there)
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