I’m convinced it is some sort of insurance fraud a la The Producers. They found a way to make more money by flopping HARD than getting middling success, and flopping hard is a LOT LESS work. If their choice is A) spend a lot of money and time making a really good game that will capture the attention of the entire market; or B) spend a bit of money and time making something that looks convincingly like a real attempt at making a good game to some corpo-fuckwits at an insurance company and then nuke it hours after release… Well. Yea, they’ll do the second one.
Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.
sonofearth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If it’s unsustainable for you, release the server and game source code for someone else to host it and patch it. Why waste developers’ time and effort into making of this game?!
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Killer57@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
From how I understand it, TenCent pulled funding in the studio as soon as the game didn’t hit its metric goals, they fired all but 11 people working on the game last month. If they have time to Port it, that would be awesome to make it open source, but I have a feeling the skeleton crew left probably doesn’t have the ability.
uienia@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nothing to salvage from that mess of a live-service slop.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I expect they are embarrassed and don’t want a visible movement to their hubris.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s insane that this isn’t a requirement for shutting down/delisting a game.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s literally what the “stop killing games” movement was/is pushing for, at least in Europe. Really hope it goes somewhere, but it’s kind of stopped making noise lately (at least that I’m hearing), what with the US speed-running fascism more and more every single week.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
As I knew it, it was about releasing binaries/selfhostability not source code.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ah, good point, it didn’t require source code release so much as self-hostability in some form.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
SKG (archived on their own YT channel not Ross) did a press conference recently and various politicals were there siding with the movement. It’s still slow but ongoing progress.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s good to hear.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Whose requirement? Government game laws? Just don’t play this garbage.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yes.