Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold

• dino@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “open them up”? make them open source or what? thats ridicolous

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  • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. Remove the need for a server that the company provides for example.

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  • Spectrism@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why is that ridiculous? Seems like a totally fine solution to me. Probably not possible in most cases due to licencing issues, but if not this is the best thing a developer could do. But making games and/or their servers open source isn’t even the only option. In most cases it will suffice to just provide server binaries and patch the game to make it work with self-hosted servers, or just patch it to make it playable offline. It’s that simple. Developing games with that in mind makes this even easier.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’ve got options.

    • never build in forced server components to begin with
    • patch out the need for the server as part of the last update before support ends
    • give buyers access to run their own servers with an officially-provided executable and set the client to connect to that executable
    • open source the whole thing

    And maybe others. It’s about making sure that a product you have paid for actually works as it was sold to you. It’s honestly a really basic consumer protection concept. You sell me a television and it stops working within a reasonable lifetime due to your own failure, and you’re obligated to repair or replace it. The same should be true of software.

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    • dino@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol, yea exactly. Thats why electornic devices stop working after their guarantee runs out 80% of the time… ;)

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