cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/34790413
If two guys and a basement can run the guild wars 1 servers for next to nothing (their words) than yes, company's very much could run their servers forever.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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Switch this meme with "people want video games they own" and it's this thread. There are still plenty of games you can self host: Palworld, Minecraft, Satisfactory, Factorio, Terraria, Space Engineers, Counter Strike 2, The Forest, ARMA III, 7 Days to Die, Rust, Valheim. The average person obviously doesn't care about self hosting their own game server.
They can connect to a server of those who do care about self hosting their own game server.
Getting back to the old status quo
If you want to make this a law, how would anyone handle this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3jMKeg9S-s&t=73
This argument holds true for developers of all sizes and is somehow totally ignored by most here.
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It would be great if servers were just running in the background with an update
Maybe build a game server
It is already possible, but very time consuming and expensive. You need at least team of reverse engieneer and developer.