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?
That was not what was asked for. In example there is an exception for games you pay monthly, like MMORPGs. Secondly, the request is to patch games or develop them in a way, that servers aren’t needed to play them offline when applicable. One example that comes to my mind is (as I’m personally affected) the original Overwatch 1 from 2016 should still work offline, without the servers. At least the training area in example, or fighting against bots if it is possible.
A server browser/community servers would also open up a lot.
But that might also mean newly discovered exploits/RCE vulnerabilities may go unpatched after support is dropped.