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1. Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:44:32 JST Angry Sun
   I don't think people that make and sell games should be legally compelled to release their games and game servers after they become economically unviable. instead they should be compelled to truthfully and clearly indicate that the product you're buying will stop working someday.
   
   and some minority faction of game makers should make games to serve the "I want to play this game forever using a self hosted private server" market.
   
   also maybe in general there should be a better understanding that games aren't art they are a business, if they were really in the art business they would care about art preservation and do all those things like keep the game playable after they shut down their servers, but they don't.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:44:30 JST xianc78

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     • cool_boy_mew

     @sun @coolboymew You could have the live services federate with each other and compare and copy each other's leaderboards, but it probably wouldn't be a perfect solution.

   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:44:31 JST Angry Sun

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     • cool_boy_mew
     @coolboymew Ive been posting about this yeah, they build games this way to soak you its not actually a technical requirement
   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:44:31 JST Angry Sun

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     • cool_boy_mew
     @coolboymew you do get some good things like global leaderboards you wouldn't get with self hosted servers but
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:44:32 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @sun It becomes somewhat of a problem now that everything multiplayer is fucking part live service so they're now not beholden to anything, no more self-server hosting, no more custom sprays, no more fucking anything that made these games fun
     
     Oh, and the only reason people played Warcraft 3? The map mods? Well in the new version if you make a mod it's owned by Activision Blizzard now :)))))))))))
     
     I'm going to go ahead and go "fuck you, no, you release the source you pieces of shit"
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:46:43 JST xianc78

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     @sun I think more people should start packet analyzing games while the game is still live instead of waiting until the last minute. I feel like people don't start packet analyzing until it is almost too late. Case in point, the Nintendo Wi-Fi games weren't analyzed until mere months before the servers shut down.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:52:25 JST xianc78

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     • cool_boy_mew

     @sun @coolboymew *servers federate