A screenshot of a tweet stolen from reddit, as is lemmy tradition.
You can’t compel companies to keep a server up. It’s a silly request that was doomed from the start.
But you can make it legal for fans to host their own servers, regardless of the financial success of the game. If “Stop Killing Games” wants to actually achieve something, they should fight for legal protections for fan servers.
Publishers shouldn’t be able to issue Cease & Disists for fan self-hosted communities around games who’s dev’s they’ve shuttered. Hell, push it one step further, fans should be allowed to host their own servers even when the publisher is still maintaining their own.
TF2 is kinda the gold standard here. Why the hell can’t we have community servers for Elden Ring, or League of Legends?



Bro, you’re literally making the arguments SKG would accept while being “it’s asking the wrong thing”. The core of what SKG was asking is that if the company stops official support for the game the game should stay at a playable state. It’s not making any demands on how those games should stay playable. It’s even very open about what constitutes as “playable”. For example if PUBG support ended if you’d be able to start a match alone without anyone to play with that would be enough to be “playable”. Even if there’s no actual game to play as long as you could load into the world it would be enough for SKG.
A near perfect solution for SKG would be exactly your point. Games should come with community servers or whatever infrastructure (software-wise) is necessary to keep the game running. If the publisher wants to shut down their own servers that’s fine, fans would just boot up their own servers and there would be nothing to C&D for the publisher because they gave the server software as an EOL plan. But SKG didn’t explicitly demand that because corporations would instantly go “That’s too far. It’s too unreasonable of a claim to force us to give out our proprietary software.” The “how” was left deliberately open so that the gaming industry would give anything, even an inch, to preserve games and they couldn’t even give that.