Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games
Noerknhar@feddit.org 2 days ago
It’s a multiplayer freemium game. Even if they let you keep your “copy” of it, servers will be down and the game will not be playable anyways. At least they offer a refund.
The game would have gone offline eventually anyway. Most people get nothing when that inevitably happens. Some games flip to an offline only version, but that’s very rare.
Hell, I bought single player offline games from the Play store for my phone, and they no longer seem to exist. RIP Rayman Jungle Run.
Perpetuum official servers went down years ago, so they open source the server and the game lives on
Two crimes, then.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Multiplayer online games used to allow you to self-host so there was no obligatory centralised server. The game need not be deleted, that was purely a business decision.
whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 1 day ago
I remember when you could be a listen server or run your own ddedicated server using the freely available executable. Been a while since I’ve seen anything like that
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Lots of game still have that, Satisfactory, Minecraft, Valheim
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The suits found out what servers are. Worst shit that ever happened