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?
Ive been following this for years now. How it’s gotten into the zeitgeist that SKG was asking for perpetual support I’ll never know. They literally told them over and over again that they are not asking for perpetual support from studios, just an end of life plan of some sort. The commission didn’t listen.
Yup. The only requirement was that the game remains “reasonably playable” after the publisher ends support. Releasing standalone server software for owners of the game to run themselves has always been one of SKG’s suggested solutions.