Publishers would have to offer “independent” play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.

  • Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    What pivoting?

    It changes the plans of shuttering a server, not offering a new one. Any such independent play patch soils only be released when a company is ready to end servers.

    A new game previously intended to be released December 31st of this year, caught off guard with just one day of warning, could still release without changing a thing. The game will have servers for years to come, presumably.

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      7 hours ago

      Highgaurd didn’t even last a month, and they definitely didn’t have the funds left over to make that game self hostable while they were in their death throes, even if they wanted to.