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It's finally up! Please sign it if you're in the UK :) Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state. (petition.parliament.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by jaykay@lemmy.zip to c/gaming

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[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They could keep the servers up, or open source them so people can host the servers themselves

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They would not even need to open source the servers. Just making the server available for users to run (even under a proprietary license) would be enough.

[–] blindsight 5 points 7 months ago

Or a patch to strip out the online portion. If developers know they'll need to create that patch eventually, then they can design the game around it. Offline/LAN play/local servers were the norm until ubiquitous high-speed internet.

There's no technical reason why Diablo 4 needs to be online only. It was a design decision made for DRM and microtransactions. D2 still works great and has thousands of active players.