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Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

As you are not a gamer, I’ll try to make it simple.

If a game ask for an online connection, is usually for three reasons:

When the publisher decide to stop the online component, to save a buck, it often mean the game stops working altogether because of the DRM part, as it basically refuses to start without the proper authorization from the now defunct server.

The petition do not ask them to keep running the server indefinitely, but rather to

In both case, the code already exist, and the changes required are minimal, so why not do it? It costs barely anything to the devs/publisher, and gives the game a second life, even without official support.

Of course there is also the open-source way. In such case, the code being public, they can just sit back & relax, the community will do the work for them. Hosting servers, fixing bugs, etc. They can even keep their right to the assets, like many open-sourced games does.

But they don’t. Mostly out of greed, to push people to buy the newest, micro-transaction infused game they wish to sell, sometimes even the same game with half the content replaced by micro-transaction (Overwatch 2 being the perfect example).
They don’t want an older, maybe better game to overshadow their new shiny cash grab.

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