With the whole Stop Killing Games thing being a topic of discussion I think unless a developer can support a game indefinitely, they shouldn't be making live service games - ThreadSky

envinyon.bsky.social • 1 day ago

With the whole Stop Killing Games thing being a topic of discussion

I think unless a developer can support a game indefinitely, they shouldn't be making live service games

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hatok.bsky.social•1 day ago

honestly it should just be a requirement that they have a switch they can flip to turn it into an offline game where you can access as much of the content as feasiable

hellsthehellhound.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Hell, even if they can't they could always do something like what TF2's sorta been doing and basically have the fans host the servers

envinyon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Stop Killing Games would hurt live service development, yes

This is a good thing

Publishers NEED to be disincentivized from putting out a game, draining whatever money they can out of it for a year, and then pulling the plug

envinyon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like sorry but if a developer actually would have to shut their doors in response to this, then the world is better off without them

crossroadwitch.bsky.social•18 hours ago

while your not wrong about them needing to be disincentivize from live service games,
im not sure how much SKG are asking for would hurt online games, they could just release tools for private/fan servers and patch a way to transfer player data from console to pc when the devs hit EOS you know ?

johnxuandou.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even in the extreme case of a small team making a game that requires server connectivity to function, it's comparatively not that expensive to make server tools and let people host their own servers in the event of a shutdown. Fucking Brink lets you host a server and that game made zero money.

tomboypepsilove.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think at bare minimum I'd hope it'd be more standard for games to have *some* sort of end of life plan from the beginning, like Pocket Camp (offline version with full features) or Knockout City (game itself died but server tools were made available)

Just anything other than faith and good wishes

snarkygoblin.bsky.social•1 day ago

They dont even need to keep it running once its at its end, they can just turn code and support systems over to the public and private server runners would be able to keep some running

If a developer isnt willing to turn over a "dead" game for that much at minimum, then bruh lol

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