At the very least it should allow locally hosted online games.
Comment on Multiversus ends updates, will close servers on May 30 (but will remain playable in Singleplayer)
emb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So bizarre to me that a game has to be a runaway hit to even remain accessible for any length of time.
Stopping updates I get (and good, most game updates are annoying), but shutting down servers completely and especially delisting it seem so over the top.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
NineMileTower@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That seems unreasonable to you, because you are a peon. You mean nothing to profits, so you will stop playing and you will like it. Now, buy our other products.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Games need to bring back locally hosted servers.
I remember back in the day I could play Warcraft II with a friend over dialup, I’d put his number in and that modem would call his house and he’d answer with his copy of Warcraft and we could play against each other over the phone line with no server.
Even as recently as the Xbox 360 you could system link games and play on multiple consoles without any connection to the internet.
I don’t see why it would be so hard to allow for a locally hosted server on most games. They would still be playable indefinitely without need of any kind of central server system.
And they don’t need to be mutually exclusive, Halo 2 allowed for you to play both on Xbox live and system link games
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not that it’s hard. It’s that they see it as interfering with their business model. Not only would that remove the likelihood of you seeing other people’s new skins, it also removes a dependence on them, where they can create forced independence. Plus I suspect that they fear more piracy.