Submitted 6 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.
Not quite as important as the right to repair, but similar in spirit: I would love to see a legal requirement that shut-down online games are either refunded or have their server specs released so that the community can revive/maintain them.
stopkillinggames.com
One of their ideas is allow private match/self hosted online services for any game that shuts down it’s servers.
shutting down most central servers is a death sentence anyway. I'm not putting another decade of grinding into a private server when my Diablo 3 characters are gone.
honestly copyright law shouldn’t apply to games that are no longer fully playable for any reason
This is not enough, the code is old with vulnerabilities that will be exploited with automation nowadays. To correctly do this you need open source server code, or to have it maintained.
This is not enough, the code is old with vulnerabilities
You have misunderstood. I am not talking about continuing to run the old server binaries.
I really hope that governments, especially the EU, recognise the isse server shutdowns and games being lost to history poses. It should be illegal for companies to make your already purchased games unplayable if not community hosted alternatives exist.
On that note it should also be fully legal to emulate and freely distribute any game that isn’t on sale anymore. Years of cultural history are being destroyed for corporate profit.
What any corporation hears:
[some noise] for corporate profit
I don’t really expect a business to be forced to run a game in perpetuity, but at least they shouldn’t be allowed to C&D you from doing it if they aren’t.
They would never have such expectation if they simply allowed players to host it to begin with. This used to be the norm, until companies figured out that it’s easier to control, monetize and force obsolescence to push players into a newer product if they are the only ones hosting servers.
I agree. Hell, older games could be put on digital stores right now. The PS3 had a ton of PS1 emulated classics, and even then there were a bunch left off for unknown (or licensing) reason.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Who we all helped to make.
This is fun because I have no idea what this is because I was immediately bombarded with ads.
Futurama EP 1 when Fry gets unfrozen.
Could have been an image with a caption.
We “all helped” as in people in charge gave us no choice and we didn’t choose the choices we didn’t have.
Hell, even then there’s still people fighting to preserve and host games on their own regardless.
If you’re playing on ps3 or emulation you can play online using lbpunion.com they’re currently looking into ps4 support, but just know that it requires CFW.
Sounds like they tried to patch some security vulnerabilities and it broke something so catastrophic that they would need do to a major re-write.
Does this also break the single player portion?
No. Just the online components.
Never played it, but this news is always sad, hopefully the community is in the works of archiving this, of already did.
Thanks a lot, Biden! ~/s~
Shame there wasn’t more notice. I’m sure the community would have tried to do something.
I don’t trust them as a company. They basically gave up on dreams even though it was actually a moderately successful product.
But they became really obsessed with their vision of what the product should be rather than adding the content that the player base wanted.
manmachine@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not a week comes by without a reminder about www.stopkillinggames.com
VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
'member when we were able to self host servers of our games? I member. CoD4 was awesome because of that, later the pirated version of MW2 too. These games (the first MW and MW2) are still alive because of that.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Cod WAW has user servers but they stopped paying for their anti cheat so vanilla servers either block you or are fudged
Plutonium fixes this
kalpol@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Is Enemy Territory still alive?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
we should push for them to release server software