Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state
petition.parliament.uk
Require publishers to leave videogames (and related game assets / features) they have sold to customers in a reasonably working state when support ends, so that no further intervention whatsoever is necessary for the game to function, as a statutory consumer right.
  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    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@beehaw.org
      5·
      1 year 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.