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Tower@lemmy.zip 15 hours agoI’d love to see legislation that if a game requires servers to play any portion of it, and those servers get taken offline, the source code must be released. Like, they’re already demonstrating that the game doesn’t hold enough value for them by shutting down the servers, so let the community take over.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I would love this as well. I think we should start with must be able to self host servers or use p2p servers though. You can have server software without it being open sourced, and I think that licensing wise it will be easier to pass a p2p requirement than a full open source requirement.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 47 minutes ago
I would also prefer a self-hosted/P2P type setup as it would work better for older game where it’s a just a small group of players.
That being said, from my understanding, these days P2P is very rarely used.