Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE

• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Give players a copy of the server so they can host their own, or patch the game to allow direct connections like games used to have in the 90s and 00s?

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sounds like an online only title. I thought we were going to “change that.”

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    • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Seems like your reading comprehension is lacking, so I’m going to encourage you to reread the entire exchange up to this point. If you can’t figure it out, you’re not someone worth discussing with.

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    • pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What do you mean?

      Changing the design happens during the pre-production. This will not effect any games retroactively. As unfortunate as it is, until the EU parliament decides on a law or regulation all games destined to die will die.

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      • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean, taking a 100 person battle royal and changing it so dramatically would be quite odd to do.

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• Whitebrow@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I tried to pick the most obvious example of an online only title.

    What’s the plan with a 100 player battle royal game?

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    • Whitebrow@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As long as people can host a server instance, does it matter?

      Hypothetically, even if it costs 1000$ per hour in AWS fees to get the required hardware to run that, at least you have the option to, alternatively have a peer to peer option to play smaller version on a LAN with a max of however many players your own network can support, there could be many implementations, which at the end of the day would still allow you to play the game when the official servers (authentication or room hosts) are shuttered and inaccessible

      The main point of SKG is that currently, we, as customers, are not even getting the short end of the stick, we are getting no stick, despite having paid for it.

      And ultimately, at the end of the day, not our problem to try to figure this out, the point is we’re unhappy with the current situation and want things to change.

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      • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not “changing that” it’s keeping it online only.

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    • UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hosting your own server and playing multiplayer games over LAN is playing offline. Is that what you’re asking?

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can find a community for a fighting game from 2012 to get together every Thursday night for a 30-person tournament via Discord. 100 people in a battle royale could work much the same.

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      • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That fighting game is not online only, I bet.

        I replied to someone saying that an online only game should change their design.

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• lath@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why not?

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