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[โ€“] Fermion@mander.xyz 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Is there a reason why any new launch shouldn't have a self host option from the start? Company servers can be used for tournaments, events, ranked matchmaking, anti-cheat, cross platform, etc. But why can't self-hosted servers be an option in parallel? Then it would be a non-issue for when the studio servers go eol.

[โ€“] amaryllisfever@lemmychan.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Money and control. There is no technical reason, and in fact it would be easier to just let people host their own servers.

Allowing self-hosting used to be the norm for online games. Businesses realized a long time ago that gamers stopped having standards and would accept any abuse to not be left out of the hype.

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