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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/34790413
Their fault. I remember a time when publishers allowed for people to run their own dedicated servers, for FPS at least. They could have modified that existing model, but instead they took that ability away from the user whilst almost simultaneously making excuses about the problem they created.
If their servers can't run forever, give us dedicated servers on a larger scale FFS!
I really believe it has nothing at all to do with running the servers or their maintenance costs.
It's about control. It's a rare sight to see any kind of multiplayer experience that isn't all about selling shit through MTX. If you could run your own server, you might be able to also give yourself the shit they want to nickel and dime you for without paying, and that would really ruin their model.
Yeah, but the point is if they've already shut off their servers and moved on to the next thing, who cares? Just let the dedicated fans and other nuts run their own servers and they can wash their hands of it entirely. They weren't going to make any money on it after pulling the plug anyway.
Ah, but then there's a chance fewer people would buy the next piece of shit designed to extract their money.
Yep, their argument against game preservation is that some people may use the preserved games for *shock* recreation!
That is an idiotic argument.
You’ve nailed it with these two points.
I’d like to add they specifically want to determine when and where you access their IP.
Yep.
If its possible for someone to choose an older, less expensive game, then that means those games are market competitors for similar modern games, with more mechanics designed to coax money out of you.
Its basically a hyper charged version of planned obsolesence.
If they completely replace a game with its successor and shut the former down, then people can only play the latter: the developers don't have to compete with themselves, and the publishers have an easier time with their enshittification of their franchise.
The game that kicked off SKG in the first place is an example of this, as far as I've heard The Crew was better received than The Crew 2 and 3.
Here is a completely noncontributory comment.
I stumbled across a copy of a physical book from the author of the comic this is from. I wondered to myself if this meme is in it.
It is.
THE PROPHECY HAS BEEN FULFILLED!
THE CHOSEN ONE IS AMONG US
It's such a garbage argument when you can just counter with "okay then, release software which allows the public to run them for themselves".
There are plenty of famous games, including Minecraft (only the most famous game in history) that manage to do that just fine. Acting like it's impossible just so that you can force people to buy the next game is bullshit.
"okay then, release software which allows the public to run them for themselves".
Or shit at the very least release documentation on how it works and let the open source community take care of it lol
Both? Both. Both is good.
It's such a garbage argument when you can just counter with "okay then, release software which allows the public to run them for themselves".
Which you can help by signing European Citizens' Initiative. If you are EU citizen that is.
They cant run servers forever. Which is why they should release the server code when they decide to shut down.
Yeah that would be awesome but it’s easier said than done (to no surprise, I’m sure).
One of the big issues I see from a developer standpoint is the potential for leaking proprietary code that they may not want to publicize like things related to authorization, server side anti cheat implementations, etc.
Why would they care? The product is done right? Well every project is not written from scratch and so to publish this stuff it could incur risk to the org’s other current/future projects in addition to helping outside sources get a leg up on said other current/future projects.
This could be dealt with potentially as well but that means extra dev resources and time and potentially inter-org collaboration to develop common OS standards but again that’s work that does not generate $$$
I’m not defending these assholes mind you, I just understand the blockers in the way. The greedy fucks could indeed do this but they never will because of said $$$
"They can't run servers forever!" Open source the server then Let people who want to play it run it themselves then
EDIT: typo
I remember being able to run a private World of Warcraft server on my computer back in like, 2009. Surely if WoW can be reverse-engineered, so can many other titles.
But yes, it would obviously be better if they’d just open-source it.
Surely if WoW can be reverse-engineered, so can many other titles.
This is solving wrong problem. Or rather, this problem should not exist at all.
they can't keep running servers forever
That's exactly why we need it to pass.
Which EU citizens can help with by signing it. We are 40% there, we need your signature.
I think Microsoft should be pressured under this with their deprecation of Windows Mixed Reality. They're totally fine with just bricking tons of highly sophisticated, expensive devices people already bought.
And then they have the gall to talk about "sustainability."
Not gonna support it anymore? Give it to the community. Patch out the requirement for your top-secret black-boxed corporate garbage.
That all costs money though .......
Money they earned when they said it will be around in the future, so fuck-em.
"Stop Killing Games" is literally a way to force companies to let you host your own servers. That's the intention. The company loses nothing, they can wash their hands and move on.
In fact, they can even continue to sell games without servers.
If they're not gonna run servers, then they should distribute and open source the server software so players can run their own servers.
Whenever google cancels a cool project a small part of me wishes they would open source it.
I feel like wayyy too many engineer minds lean back on “too vague” without understanding how many judgment calls judges make in cases every day. It’s not uncommon for them to have to decide what someone’s intent or knowledge was when taking a certain action.
Software engineer here. I find the petition to be very specific, and totally feasible.
Anyway, this isn't a true referendum where its text would become immediate law as soon as it passes. It's a petition that would be presented to legislators who would write the actual law. The petition doesn't need to be written in legalese.
(Also: if the customer paid them even one cent, then they DO owe the customer something. Also: They should be forced to release the server software when they shut down the servers.)
Meanwhile ragnarok online a 2002 mmorpg is alive and kicking with hundreds of private servers..
To all the people saying they should release server source code: You don't even need to do that (as nice as it would be). At the very basic level all that is needed is:
If your game relies on your servers, I won't buy your game.
If two guys and a basement can run the guild wars 1 servers for next to nothing (their words) than yes, company's very much could run their servers forever.
Switch this meme with "people want video games they own" and it's this thread. There are still plenty of games you can self host: Palworld, Minecraft, Satisfactory, Factorio, Terraria, Space Engineers, Counter Strike 2, The Forest, ARMA III, 7 Days to Die, Rust, Valheim. The average person obviously doesn't care about self hosting their own game server.
They can connect to a server of those who do care about self hosting their own game server.
Getting back to the old status quo
Maybe its my lack of trust in the government from being in the US, but you guys seem to have a ton of faith that your legislators will take this and not make it a shit show and worse than the status quo.