Comment on Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will end service in Nov 28 - but will transition to a paid offline app

• nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.pcgamingwiki.com/…/Category:Unplayable_games

  And that’s only PC games.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like some of those are games that were cancelled, some were online multiplayer games that had the servers shutdown, some were simply removed from the Microsoft Store and some were single player games with always online DRM for which they shut the servers down. So it’s not all super scummy nonsense

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    • nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Taking away a game you bought because the game was intentionally made to rely on a server is always scummy behavior.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If it’s a game like an MMO (which several on that list are) they’d have to publish the server software in order to avoid fully killing the game. And to publish the server software that was only ever expected to run in their own datacenters they’d then have to publish documentation, dependencies, etc. and this is all assuming that it can be contained in a single installer for a single machine without relying on additional services they host, and assuming it has reasonable system requirements for average users to self host.

        That’s also assuming playing an MMO alone/with only 1-2 people doesn’t suck. Play some 2009scape single player without adventure bots. It feels lonely as all heck

        Plus there’s all of the legal and PR hurdles to ensure you’re not exposing yourself to undue risk.

        Basically a million reasons for a company to not spend a thousand work hours ensuring their crappy MMO (I’ve tried out a couple of the listed MMOs, they were unsuccessful for a reason) can continue to be played after they’ve divested from it

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    • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With the possible exception of games that were canceled, those are all examples of super scummy nonsense.

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh no! Not Microsoft Bingo! That’s a list of D list games nobody has ever heard of that all shutdown years ago. I don’t think the world would be a better place if the devs of Radical Heights, a free to play arena shooter that was launched and shutdown a month later in 2018 were forced to give their game out to everyone for free after.

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    • nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hello, sole arbiter of a game’s worth.

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      • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You didn’t create those games. Games are products people work to produce. Radical Heights was a free to play game that was shutdown in a month. What would you force them to do? Release their server code for free so anybody can run a Radical Heights server that people can connect to and play? So a whole bunch of people who never gave the developers a cent have the right to demand the game be given to them simply because it existed for 1 month?

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