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[โ€“] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know what you mean, but they're going to abandon it eventually, right? What matters is how they abandon it; what they leave behind. Currently, they leave nothing for the playerbase.

If they need to retire the live service to move forward, so be it. But if I wanna boot up a server for a night of gameplay with friends on some retired game I should be able to do so.

Allowing dedicated servers after said live service retirement is the fix.

[โ€“] Venat0r@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They don't want it to be competing with their new releases, even if it's only a small theoretical competition that doesn't actually occur in the real world, so they currently have a small incentive to kill it. This is why there needs to be regulations introduced to ensure the server software is released when they shut it down.