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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And if a company refuses? They're dead anyway. This is not well thought out and PS called it out. You have no actionable solution but are calling for one to just appear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If they refuse to make a totally reasonable addition to their game then yeah they can't publish it wow what a concept.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Lol so just kill all MMORPGs. Got it. You're so smart.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I can literally play WOW private servers right now. I can host my own private server and play it single-player.

What is being required is not complicated or difficult.

If a developer wants to destroy their own project instead of taking the extra week of work it takes to let people locally host then that sounds like a really dumb decision.

You're literally whining about nothing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh okay then just make private servers for "dead" games. It's just that easy. What's your problem then?

You keep contradicting yourself and it's embarrassing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No, it's much more reasonable to make devs put the hosting oprions they use in the code of the game for others to use instead of a community having to reverse engineer the net code and build their own tool.

Your contradictions are destroying your argument dude. This is why nobody takes you seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

Lol you not understanding why that can't happen is what's sending me. There are so many issues with just the PREMISE of this that you don't even address.

At what point is a game considered dead? When is a company obligated to provide access? Will the company be legally obligated to release character profiles? If yes, how does one stop third parties from modifying it/cheating prior to hosting? If no, it's everyone expected to restart ion company death? How will this access be granted or hosted? How long will this need to be available for? Who pays to keep this information hosted for that duration?

There are so many fucking questions unanswered because you seem to think you can just throw fucking LAN ports on a game and it just work. Your brain is stuck in 2004 where all you needed was an IP address and port number. Games aren't that simple anymore and the ones that are, already fucking have it.