Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed

• Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Private WoW servers thrived. Much of the endgame content required 40 players to collaborate for hours at a time, and they have kept their own dream running for well over a decade.

  You should have the option to find and play with others long after corporate servers are abandoned. Whether or not there are other players immediately available is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It also allows the game to revive itself. Those 40 players playing pirated WoW could introduce more people to the game. And at the very least, it allows it be run in the future if ever historians should need access.

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I dont think you do know how licenses work when your complaint amounts to ” I want this the way I want it not the way I agreed to it”.

    You either accept the game the way it us offered or you dont play the game. You are not entitled to get things the way you want them.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right, and the way licenses work should be illegal. If I purchase something, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, for as long as I choose to. That’s what purchase means.

      If I rent/subscribe to something, that only lasts for the duration of my contract.

      Sure, I’m not entitled to get things the way I want, but am entitled to get things the way they were advertised. If I buy a game, I should be able to play it even if the publisher shops selling it. They have options on how to handle that, either by releasing the server code so I can self-host it, removing the server bits so I can play offline, or continuing to keep servers online for existing owners.

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      • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If I rent/subscribe to something, that only lasts for the duration of my contract.

        Just to reinforce your point, if you rend/subscribe to something, the duration should be known at the time. The fact that they can pull the plug at any time without a prior warning is what makes it a scam.

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    • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lol swing and a miss again, my friend.

      Nice use of the word “entitled” - really sums up your stance on the consumer/business relationship.

      The consumer is “entitled” for protesting predatory or unethical business practices.

      The consumer is “entitled” for opposing the ongoing enshittification of entire industries.

      The consumer is “entitled” for wanting businesses to not be able to legally hide behind unsustainable licensing practices that provide no value to society and further entrench the ever-growing rent/subscription model that is squeezing people dry for no reason.

      The entire point - the entire fucking point - is that these licenses are not okay. So, no, I don’t pay for these licenses, but I don’t think anyone should be able to pay for these licenses, because I don’t think anyone should be able to “sell” these licenses.

      These licenses - like many unethical business practices - put the corporation that offers them at a financial advantage over the corporations that don’t.

      Regulations - in every industry - levels the playing field. They allow ethical business practices to be viable and competitive, instead of being liabilities and risks.

      We have every goddamn right to protest those business practices whether or not we do business with those companies - just as we have every right to protest unethical or discriminatory hiring practices by companies that we don’t work for.

      But enjoy the taste of corporate boots!

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It is entitlement. When I signed up to play Fortnite BR I agreed to a limited license to play the game as they intended to run it. If Epic kills Fortnite do I have the right to force them to make a version of BR be playable offline? No, because that isn’t what we agreed to.

        Nothing about this is predatory. You simply aren’t getting what you want and are throwing a tantrum over it

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You are not entitled to get things the way you want them.

      “You want to purchase something and use it the way you want to? How entitled can you get?”

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