Comment on Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will end service in Nov 28 - but will transition to a paid offline app
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoOh 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.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 5 weeks ago
Hello, sole arbiter of a game’s worth.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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?
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 5 weeks ago
Yes.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
The cost of trying to do business? They made a product and nobody paid so now they have to give it away for free because they’re the greedy ones?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
When I buy a product, I expect it to continue to work unless I break it myself.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
What about Free to Play games? Can they be shutdown?