Davin

@Davin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can host the server on the same machine the game is running on, it’s not uncommon during development especially the early stages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a problem if someone wants to turn a battle royale into a 4 player game.

  If someone wants to host something bigger, that’s cool too.

  I think there would be room in the market for a group to host servers for abandoned games.

  It’s not terribly difficult or costly to set up a cloud host if you remember to put the cost restrictions on, so there’s one more option for multiplayer games.

  That’s for games in the past, games going forward could be designed better. But for games that have already been made, there’s no reasonable way to redesign games that have already been published. Any redesign will change the game instead of preserving it, and you’ll never get the original devs back together with the original tech stack in order to do any major changes. But smaller things like getting old games to be able to point to different servers isn’t a big problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just let someone else host a fucking server and let the game get pointed to that one or any other they want. They could even sell the server software and make money on that. I’d love to host my own servers of some old online only games where I could play with just my friends and family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 33 cents a small amount of money?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yeah. It would take a lot. Even at 90% $100m from a billion is still way more than most of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 33 cents a small amount of money?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the tax bracket for no taxes is $10k, you don’t get taxed if make under that.

  If the tax bracket for 5% is $10-20k, and you made $15k, the first $10k is not taxed, but the $5k is taxed at %5.

  So you would never make $0 after taxes, even if you made it into the hypothetical 100% tax bracket.