RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.

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    7 months ago

    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.

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        7 months ago

        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.

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          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.