100%! Every single developer I’ve ever met has been adamant about wanting to watch their work, hours of their life, be killed off on a financial basis! They told me so personally!
Edit: speaking seriously now, I don’t get what their fucking problem is… Nobody’s asking them to keep the servers running indefinitely. I mean, the far, far smarter choice would be to implement LAN play. Hell, not even that, give us the source code and we’ll do it on our own! The community has been aces at keeping old multiplayer games alive and kicking, just look at Battlefield 2142, custom WoW servers, custom, like… whatever servers. There are so, so many people willing to keep these games alive without any help from the publisher or anyone else.
Well, that would spoil the fun, wouldn’t it! I mean, that soul-whittling existential anxiety I get whenever I pick up an online-only game is 90% of the reason why I play them in the first place!
Nobody’s asking them to keep the servers running indefinitely.
Also, why not just release a docker image of your server plus a docker-compose/kubernetes deployment definition? You’re usually using cloud hosting and automated deployment anyways, so you probably already have one laying around anyways…
100%! Every single developer I’ve ever met has been adamant about wanting to watch their work, hours of their life, be killed off on a financial basis! They told me so personally!
Edit: speaking seriously now, I don’t get what their fucking problem is… Nobody’s asking them to keep the servers running indefinitely. I mean, the far, far smarter choice would be to implement LAN play. Hell, not even that, give us the source code and we’ll do it on our own! The community has been aces at keeping old multiplayer games alive and kicking, just look at Battlefield 2142, custom WoW servers, custom, like… whatever servers. There are so, so many people willing to keep these games alive without any help from the publisher or anyone else.
And they especially don’t want end users to be informed about the game’s life expectancy before they pay for it!
Well, that would spoil the fun, wouldn’t it! I mean, that soul-whittling existential anxiety I get whenever I pick up an online-only game is 90% of the reason why I play them in the first place!
Also, why not just release a docker image of your server plus a docker-compose/kubernetes deployment definition? You’re usually using cloud hosting and automated deployment anyways, so you probably already have one laying around anyways…