When I buy a product, I expect it to continue to work unless I break it myself.
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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoYou 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?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
What about Free to Play games? Can they be shutdown?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I have no authority over anything, so yes, they can. What I’d like to see is an option to buy an offline copy of the game and any add-ons I bought, but no one does that. What Stop Killing Games is looking for is for the server to be made available after the game’s end of life so that you can continue to use anything you paid for.
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?
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 5 weeks ago
That’s just blatantly false. People bought the founders pack were never refunded for example. Those people being entitled to the server software or a refund is anything but greedy.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
So the devs give all the founders an empty map they can run around offline in and that fixes everything? The game hasn’t been killed? It’s been saved?