There's a campaign to get some governments attention regarding the practice of online only games being shut down and remaining unplayable after they have done that. Please visit https://stopkillinggames.com if you wanna know more.
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good campaign, it makes no sense to just remove games after they're done making money of it, just release the game code or whatever
should be allowed to destroy if they refund the players
what if they simply dont wanna run servers for the stuff or want to spend the time making it not online dependent
what if they simply dont wanna run servers for the stuff or want to spend the time making it not online dependent
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They could patch the game to be single player or allow the community to come in and host their own server(s).Dementedduck wrote:
should be allowed to destroy if they refund the players
what if they simply dont wanna run servers for the stuff or want to spend the time making it not online dependent
Would that apply to these games that are only available digitally and that they get delisted over time, turning them into potential lost media?
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I don't know. I don't think the scope of the campaign is that large. What the starter of the campaign wants is for games that are online only to receive a "support ends" plan. After the servers shut down, the game is still playable or mostly playable.Nuuskamuikkunen wrote:
Would that apply to these games that are only available digitally and that they get delisted over time, turning them into potential lost media?
I can say this though: if this gets somewhere, it might be possible for other similar campaigns to pop up that deal with other shitty practices that the gaming industry employs.