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A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers "killing games."

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[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

well, while i understand sunsetting old online multiplayer games because hosting game servers is a non zero cost, i can't understand the need for singleplayer games to be always connected and rendering them unplayable

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The company wouldn't be required to keep their servers online, just to allow other people to host their own. So it has 0 ongoing cost and maybe few hours of coding during game development.

[–] FPSkra@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Unless you are a game developer I would hold off on assuming how much work would be required to do what this proposal asks.