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Announcement of Discontinuation of Online Services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software
(en-americas-support.nintendo.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
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They don't have to be. 30 year old PC games have their server software bundled with the game; the ephemeral aspect of current online services is entirely artificial.
And it's incentivized by the people buying into it. If people collectively woke up and started asking questions, this wouldn't be an issue.
Instead, we buy into them and then try to force them to open up through legislation.
Imagine if cars were really unsafe. Would you say, “we shouldn’t legislate car safety, we should all just wake up and start buying safer cars!”
To be fair, cars having safety measures now are the reason why poor people can't afford them anymore though.
You can buy a brand new Dacia Sandero for 12000€, hardly expensive for a car.