I played it in the "open beta" two years ago. Sad that it's come to this, the game had a lot going for it but.. having all characters locked on start then weirdly shutting the game down for an extended time then coming back with everything somehow worse... everyone saw this coming.

At least it will stil be playable.

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[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At the very least it should allow locally hosted online games.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There should be a law allowing full refunds of a game if its core service is taken offline without implementing a workaround. It should be treated the same way as planned obsolescence.

Companies aren't motivated to allow self-hosting at launch because there's no money in it. And they're not motivated to implement self hosting after they've made their money and then take the service down because there's no money in it.

Implement the workaround, open source the software, or force the publisher to issue a refund to anyone who requests one. That should be the standard.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

There's not just no money in it, they see incentive in killing their old products thoroughly in order to better sell their new ones.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I mean half these games could do some form of self-hosting or Peer to Peer. It makes no sense that Multiverses needed to run on some centralized service. I wonder what made all the dinosaur survival games allow self-hosting, a trend I noticed.