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'Let it Die' servers shutting down, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 week ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[–] usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they won't Let It Die... heh...

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I imagine the servers would have been shut down some time ago, if not for the confusion.

"So are we shutting down that game? What's the name?"
"Let it Die."
"Alright."
"What are you doing?!"
"Shutting down the servers...?"
"Why?"
"... You said let it die!"
"I didn't! I said it's Let it Die not let it die!!"
"What?!"

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

third base!

[–] FEIN@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what?

no he's on second. third base, i don't know

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is awesome. Should be the normal way to do things!

-- Frost

[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I don't think Robert Frost said that.

[+] warm@kbin.earth -9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Disagree, it should be at no extra cost.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Selling it is reasonable since it was free to play, but imo anyone who’s payed past the sale price in micro transactions should get it free.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 4 points 5 days ago

It was a free to play game ...

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was free to play, it was a service game. Now with the offline option it becomes a product game, it makes sense to ask for a one time purchase money, no?

[–] warm@kbin.earth -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No. They can't prey on people with "micro"-transactions and then ask for money to get a game that should have been playable offline anyway. That's abusing the live service, free-to-play model for as long as it benefits them and then also asking for the price of a game afterwards. Let's not let them set a precedent here.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

The precedent is that their live service game is now preserved in a way few others are doing. Buying the game shows that there's money to be made doing this, meaning others might have an incentive to preserve their shuttered live services, too.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

It's a 8 years old game, asking some extra for an offline version doesn't sound abusive for me. You clearly disagree, that's fine.

[–] OneOfNaturesMysteries@piefed.zip 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What, they should just make games for free?

[–] warm@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Live service games exist to extract as much as they can from people through the form of MTX. They should use that money to plan for the eventual shutdown of their game, not then ask people to pay for it. Just make it paid to begin with and scrap the in game purchases.

[–] OneOfNaturesMysteries@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I tried to look at what they were selling and it doesn't seem like anything you're buying is actual content, but rather a shortcut to success. Microtransactions suck, but if ownership wasn't promised or implied anywhere, what are the players exactly entitled to? I just don't see any lies, broken promises, or failed expectations.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unless you are buying DRM-free, ownership isn't implied for any game. They don't need the money to make the game playable offline, that work has already been done, charging for it is just trying to get one last cashout.

Hey that game you've been playing all this time, them purchases you've made, well if you want to keep playing, you have to pay us!

[–] OneOfNaturesMysteries@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

It is implied: most people do expect to keep a game if they buy it. There's no expectation to keep an arcade machine after inserting coins. Everyone who paid for extra lives or whatever powerups should have done so with a clear expectation that the online game that they haven't purchased will die eventually. Nobody is being duped or betrayed.

Giving it out for free would be nice and probably wouldn't cost them too much, but it's also unreasonable to demand something that was never promised. Damn, I can't believe I'm defending some free-to-play pay-to-win microtransaction online service hell game, but I guess even they can do something ~~right~~ not wrong every now and then.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You didn't really answer the question.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Silly question. They haven't made a game for free.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're required to spend money on in game purchases to play?

I play a "freemium" game and haven't spent a penny on it.

I'm not arguing in favor of the exploitative tactics those companies use to dupe people out of money, but you can still play most of them without paying.

It's absolutely within the realm of possibility that a chunk of the people that would buy a lifetime license are people who haven't spent any money on it so far.

And this is still a very rare move for a game company, and it's a trend that needs to start. Don't let perfect stand in the way of good.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

It's not free to play because they are being generous. It's because it enables the most exposure to the most predatory model.

Would they have made the same amount of money with a paid game? Probably not, most free to play games know they arent interesting enough to sell like that.

Selling the game after the fact is just gross, not them being nice. The trend that needs to start is any online games just being playable offline from the start, or for free in the end.

Or we wait for legislation to hopefully force this, without any extra purchases needed.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They should make the free game, free-er.

[–] illi@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Other commenter mentioned it's f2p so that would make a little more sense to charge for it. Depending on the price tag.

[–] OneOfNaturesMysteries@piefed.zip 39 points 1 week ago

I sure didn't expect this from a free-to-play game. Nice job, GHM

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back in my day games didn’t need live service for multiplayer! ~get off my damn lawn~

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How bad does your pee hurt, Grandpa?

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I don’t know, how does your enshittified half-games hobby run by venture capitalists with predatory fuck transactions hurt you little fucking shit? Go get grandpa a god damned beer and I’ll tell you about the wonders of game-spy AND DONT TELL YOUR MOTHER!

[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

Offline mode is nice, but for a game with core online features they really ought to release a dedicated server.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago

Well I guess I'm glad I didn't like it because I just found out about it last week and was checking it out.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

[–] CharlesReed@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

I was obsessed with this game for a few months when it first came out. I've had thoughts here and there about checking back in to poke around, but I guess not. I'm sure my base is a mess from raiders for as long as I've been gone.

[–] JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This game

Rogue

Can we please stop calling every game “Roguelike”?

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Yeah it’s clearly a Roguelite

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agreed, TotalBicuit has a really good video on the difference between roguelike and roguelite

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And even then you'll get the Berlin Interpretation people who would still say he's wrong.