▲ 286 ▼ MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today (www.videogameschronicle.com) submitted 1 year ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world 81 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children) According to the bean counters this will save them $17/month in hosting costs permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] golli@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (2 children) Do you even have to pay hosting costs, if you put a game on steam or does valve not distribute your game for free? If I'd have to guess the bigger issues with a game like this would be licensing or that delisting allows some form of tax advantageous asset depreciation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] pipe01@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago You don't pay anything to steam other than the initial 100 bucks or so, and the cut they take permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago Valve hosts it for "free" (30 to 15% of every sale), yes. I'm guessing this game has some phone-home DRM or something, and maybe it's only required the first time it's executed after installation ? They could of course just give the game a patch that removes it but I guess they don't want to anger the line investors and make it go down by working even a second on a "discontinued" game. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) Pretty sure hosting costa arent it, the only thing possible woyld be licensing issues for the IP's otherwsie they could leave it on steam forever and STILL make money off of sales. There are games that do this by making the players host their own servers each match. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago But they own the IPs... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] golli@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (2 children) Do you even have to pay hosting costs, if you put a game on steam or does valve not distribute your game for free? If I'd have to guess the bigger issues with a game like this would be licensing or that delisting allows some form of tax advantageous asset depreciation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] pipe01@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago You don't pay anything to steam other than the initial 100 bucks or so, and the cut they take permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago Valve hosts it for "free" (30 to 15% of every sale), yes. I'm guessing this game has some phone-home DRM or something, and maybe it's only required the first time it's executed after installation ? They could of course just give the game a patch that removes it but I guess they don't want to anger the line investors and make it go down by working even a second on a "discontinued" game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pipe01@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago You don't pay anything to steam other than the initial 100 bucks or so, and the cut they take permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago Valve hosts it for "free" (30 to 15% of every sale), yes. I'm guessing this game has some phone-home DRM or something, and maybe it's only required the first time it's executed after installation ? They could of course just give the game a patch that removes it but I guess they don't want to anger the line investors and make it go down by working even a second on a "discontinued" game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 child) Pretty sure hosting costa arent it, the only thing possible woyld be licensing issues for the IP's otherwsie they could leave it on steam forever and STILL make money off of sales. There are games that do this by making the players host their own servers each match. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago But they own the IPs... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago But they own the IPs... permalink fedilink source parent