Stop Killing Games explicitly does not want endless support from a publisher. They are advocating for publishers to implement an End of Life plan during the development stages of a game that can be enacted after the publisher wishes to stop supporting a game, so that a player has a reasonable chance of continuing to play the game on their own, either by disabling Always Online DRM, removing the Online component of a game with a large single player campaign (like The Crew), or providing server binaries so the user can self-host a server.
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LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel like maybe I need to read more about the whole “stop killing games” thing. It’s awesome and fine if they expect at some point the game will be able to be played through a free multiplayer tool that enables someone to host and pay for private games.
It’s quite another if they think companies should have to shell money out of pocket indefinitely to run infrastructure for multiplayer games after x years of release and/or once player base passes a certain threshold number.
I’m admitting my ignorance here but I do think it’s fair to at least question both sides some
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thanks for filling me in, I do think that makes sense. I know I got downvotes for thinking aloud but appreciate you answering.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You’re probably being down voted because uninformed people giving their “opinion” has been a huge issue for SKG. Since big companies have been fighting hard for people to think that SKG means that companies would need to pay for servers infinitely.
Just mentioning that as a possibility could be harmful as it plants the seed of thought of “SKG sounds good, but they could be scheming this evil shit in the shadows”. Which is NOT the case, SKG has been very explicit in that they DON’T want companies to pay for maintenance for servers. They only want access to the server software in order for anyone to be able to run it.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
No prob :)
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
AgentRocket@feddit.org 1 day ago
SKG has repeatedly stated, that they don’t want eternal support from publishers/developers, but the means to run the games, once the official support and infrastructure is gone. that could mean tools to run private servers locally or online or some sort of offline singleplayer mode.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thanks for filling me in, I do think that makes sense. I know I got downvotes for thinking aloud but appreciate you answering.