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UK petition: require publishers to NOT shut down games that people bought with their money (check comments for non-UK citizen's options) (petition.parliament.uk)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know it would be radical, but you could require that they release the server code open source. So it's not their responsibility to run it, but if the community wants to run it, they can.

Or, if that's complicated due to licensing etc, they could release a minimal server implementation that maybe doesn't scale the same way, but at least has the interfaces covered so the community can take it from there. The game could at least still be played.

[–] Couldbealeotard 6 points 5 months ago

They don't need to release it as open source. They could just do what games used to do, have a server executable so people can host their own sessions.