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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the game requires online features by design, then the company does have the responsibility to keep that online.

If you don't want to support a game for 5-10 years with online services, don't make a game that relies on online services. It ilreally is that simple.

  • Don't put always online DRM (if hitman servers go down, nobody can play the fully single-player game. Absolutely 0 reason to connect to the internet).

  • Don't put online DLC verification. Use a damn code/binary file that steam can distribute theough the store.

  • if you have a multiplayer game, put an option for self-hosted game servers and LAN. Battefront 2 original is literally still going for 18 years because they were not dumbasses and made a good game with good features and custom server capability

It really is extremely simple to not be a corrupt, money-grubbing piece of shit corpo.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Except this isn't about DRM, or even online game servers. They literally said all of that will continue. They're just not making DLC anymore and people are calling it a "pump-and-dump".