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Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers? (lemmings.world)
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Seems like there's going to be a point where people are noticing the games they spent money on don't work as they should anymore because the servers get shut down.

How would you feel if most of the multiplayer games you spent money on suddenly stopped being multiplayer because the business decided it's not worthwhile for them to keep the servers running?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Which is a shame.

I'll always be able to play World at War multiplayer because it supports LAN and player-hosted servers.

I don't know if the newer ones support LAN or hosting our own servers, but if they don't then it would mean we're essentially renting access to the game's multiplayer features.

It really means we're going backwards just to make businesses richer than us even richer at our expense.