Comment on Super Mario Maker is shutting down, how should I prepare?
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoMaybe they should have just done a dollar a month subscription that goes along with the game or give that as an option now to keep the server alive.
Even if it’s a couple bucks sure the most faithful adherence of the game would not really mind paying it. The biggest problem for me here is that they’re totally removing the consumer’s agency, their choice.
I agree with what someone else said in this thread that if the support goes away then the server’s code should go open source. By law.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I guess you could say that the consumers chose to buy the game, knowing that it had a dependency on an online service that they weren’t being charged an ongoing cost for. Obviously that’s a bit of a cop-out answer, but I I agree with you that if game companies shut down their servers, they should release the server code. Or at very least the API of the server so that it can be reverse engineered more easily.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Perhaps a class action lawsuit could set that precedent.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Class action lawsuits only work if a law has been broken.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Users paid, and no longer play.
Seems kinda theftish.
IANAL.