RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.
Not a week comes by without a reminder about https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
'member when we were able to self host servers of our games? I member. CoD4 was awesome because of that, later the pirated version of MW2 too. These games (the first MW and MW2) are still alive because of that.
Is Enemy Territory still alive?
we should push for them to release server software
I really hope that governments, especially the EU, recognise the isse server shutdowns and games being lost to history poses. It should be illegal for companies to make your already purchased games unplayable if not community hosted alternatives exist.
On that note it should also be fully legal to emulate and freely distribute any game that isn’t on sale anymore. Years of cultural history are being destroyed for corporate profit.
I don’t really expect a business to be forced to run a game in perpetuity, but at least they shouldn’t be allowed to C&D you from doing it if they aren’t.
They would never have such expectation if they simply allowed players to host it to begin with. This used to be the norm, until companies figured out that it’s easier to control, monetize and force obsolescence to push players into a newer product if they are the only ones hosting servers.
I’m a developer. It’s work to do anything, code doesn’t grow on the LLM tree yet. That’s a feature that would have to be implemented. Anything you ask the business to put effort in is a negative to the cause (and the cause is good), something for the businesses to latch onto to stop the law from changing.
The best argument you can make is ‘let us figure it out, just don’t sue us’. Anything else you get is a blessing.
It’s work to do anything, but we routinely see small indie studios managing to release player-hosted games just fine, while large studios don’t bother. Even though it also costs them more to run all the servers on their own. So I’m not so sure it’s just a matter of saving costs.
I agree. Hell, older games could be put on digital stores right now. The PS3 had a ton of PS1 emulated classics, and even then there were a bunch left off for unknown (or licensing) reason.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Who we all helped to make.
This is fun because I have no idea what this is because I was immediately bombarded with ads.
Guy shouts “welcome to the world of tomorrow” from Futurama EP 1 when Fry gets unfrozen.
Could have been an image with a caption.
It’s a very fitting quote for an ad barrage
We “all helped” as in people in charge gave us no choice and we didn’t choose the choices we didn’t have.
Hell, even then there’s still people fighting to preserve and host games on their own regardless.
If you’re playing on ps3 or emulation you can play online using lbpunion.com they’re currently looking into ps4 support, but just know that it requires CFW.
Sounds like they tried to patch some security vulnerabilities and it broke something so catastrophic that they would need do to a major re-write.
Does this also break the single player portion?
No. Just the online components.
Shame there wasn’t more notice. I’m sure the community would have tried to do something.
Thanks a lot, Biden! /s
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Never played it, but this news is always sad, hopefully the community is in the works of archiving this, of already did.
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