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Well that's a weird way to phrase it.
When a car or appliance is no longer in production commercial by a company generally a person can still find third party suppliers or manufacturers that provide replacement parts, or someone might step in and manufacture a specific part if demand is heigh enough.
Why cannot the same apply here? Game developers/publishers should be archiving the game servers and making sure anyone can spin up their own servers, or choose to allow the game to run without the servers.
I dont think anyone here is asking that the company that developed the game needs to continuously support the product after its end of life, but allow others to be able to freely support it themselves.
The way I see it now, corporations are going to keep producing games, applications, appliances, cars, machinery that requires servers to operate and a active subscription. Once those servers are shut off your cars heated seats for example will stop to function.
I know this was just about games, but these politicians are so short sighted they basically are allowing all the above.