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 agonobody paid
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 2 months 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?
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 2 months ago
If they can play against bots, which already exist in the game, or band enough people together with access to the game to play on a server one player is able to host, then yes. That’s what I’d expect at a minimum.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How would access be enforced to only paying customers? That would require a server which the company is shutting down
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 2 months ago
If they want to keep some form of DRM then that’s not my job to figure out. This wasn’t a problem back in the day when server software being distributed was the norm, so it shouldn’t be a problem now.
Though personally I’d be in favor of abolishing DRM entirely, but that’s another story.