RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.
Not quite as important as the right to repair, but close in spirit: I would love to see a legal requirement for shut-down online games to release the server specs needed for the community to replace/maintain them.
Edit: And data export for existing players, so our game progress can be reconstructed on community servers, of course.
One of their ideas is allow private match/self hosted online services for any game that shuts down it’s servers.
honestly copyright law shouldn’t apply to games that are no longer fully playable for any reason
But it does for proprietary code.
I’ve found that most people on this site don’t care about copyright in any form, so they’ll just ignore it like everything else
Well, when companies are cutting off people’s purchases and wiping works from our cultural history, a little bit of disregard for the law that is complicit with it is pretty much necessary.
Say, it’s through copyright violation that we can still play games from Mario Maker 1 even though the servers were shut down. People figured out how to copy it even though they weren’t allowed to.
If this is wrong, maybe the law should be fixed to provide a proper path.
shutting down most central servers is a death sentence anyway. I’m not putting another decade of grinding into a private server when my Diablo 3 characters are gone.
Agreed. But not impossible. Insignia got original Halo 2 Xbox Live servers back online. Most nights you can find a game easily with 20-40 people online during peak hours. It requires a soft mod and maybe 1-2 hours of set up to get online. If anyone could just turn on their old Xbox and play, I’m confident those numbers would be in the hundreds at least.
Allowing people to run private servers is an easy way to allow those that want to play to keep playing in an era where most games have some level of online functionality.
Not a week comes by without a reminder about https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
'member when we were able to self host servers of our games? I member. CoD4 was awesome because of that, later the pirated version of MW2 too. These games (the first MW and MW2) are still alive because of that.
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Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Who we all helped to make.
This is fun because I have no idea what this is because I was immediately bombarded with ads.
Guy shouts “welcome to the world of tomorrow” from Futurama EP 1 when Fry gets unfrozen.
Could have been an image with a caption.
It’s a very fitting quote for an ad barrage
O7
