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Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers? (lemmings.world)
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Seems like there's going to be a point where people are noticing the games they spent money on don't work as they should anymore because the servers get shut down.

How would you feel if most of the multiplayer games you spent money on suddenly stopped being multiplayer because the business decided it's not worthwhile for them to keep the servers running?

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[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Meanwhile StarCraft, one of the most pervasive rts for its time and in the PC gaming sphere in general ... let you have multiple people play multiplayer on a single disk. Offline. It's kinda like it advertised itself and people went out to buy it... which influenced more people... who bought it.... gasp.

Mindblowing.

[–] Yermaw@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Legend has it the original Worms was similar. The DRM was a notepad readme that basically said "share me with your friends but buy a copy if you really like it please"

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

mmmm banana bombs, holy hand grenades, and those cursed shopping levels * shudder *