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2024 was the year gamers really started pushing back on the erosion of game ownership (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And blizzard never supported people running private servers, and yet here they are so what's the difference? I dont see why this game got so much more attention. Is it just pulling the game to sell the next one? Its scummy but its their right to pull their own product if they want to, and noone has to buy the new one.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They did, but that was 9 years ago, so you might not remember. However it was not as popular a movement yet, so they didn't get the same backlash as people are getting almost 10 years later, when everyone is sick of this. You are right, they can pull their own product if they want to, now. The goal is to make it so they can't just do that if they want to, anymore.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If you are referring to blizzard and private servers 9 years ago, you might mean classic servers but blizzard still sends out legal cease and desists to private server owners. You still cannot host a private server on american soil without blizzard stopping you. If thats not what you meant then thats my bad though.

I also fully expect ubisoft to release "the crew remastered" at some point too, once its clear they can make a profit off doing so, just like blizzard did.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I mean they started shutting it down 9 years ago, it isn't new, so it isn't really news now

Point was, this is about making it so they don't have the option to do this anymore, with the legal system.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

I dont think its fair that is imposed on creators of video games. Is there some clause where this only applies to the developers we all dont like? I think its too much to mandate, although making voices heard about this is important in influencing developers to choose to not kill their games. I think a law is too far.