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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's also not some unknown black magic to make online games exist forever. We know how to do it.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What online games have existed forever without needing the community to reverse engineer it?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Quake is one of the oldest ones out there. Any game where you can host the server yourself can exist forever. It used to be very common that the server code was provided to you with your copy of the game.