Comment on Amazon MMO New World Has Just a Year to Live, Rust Dev Offers to Buy It - IGN

matthewm05@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As an MMO, would that make it the first of its kind?

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Absolutely not, there’s lots of MMOs that have custom servers.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In an official capacity? Because there’s something like City of Heroes, but they only have 1 licensee and that’s all they’re interested in. Or are they games that call themselves MMOs while doing way less technically than an actual MMORPG, like Guild Wars 1? I’ll grant you I could be way out of the loop, but I’ve only ever heard of pirate servers serving this role in proper MMORPGs before.

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      • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m confused by what you’re looking for. You responded originally to a comment referring to community servers. Now you’re saying in an “official capacity”. I’m confused.

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      • illi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Except the City of Heroes one, all are unofficial. But for the shut down MMOs, nobody really cares afaik. Sure there are cease and desists for private servers for live games, but never heard of such takedowns for servers running for “dead” games.

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