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Nintendo is shutting down online play on 3DS and Wii U in April 2024 | VGC
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This is just another reminder that we should support proper releases, instead of endless live service games. Preserving titles will become increasingly more difficult in the future
Unfortunately it's a losing battles. One midly successful live service games earns the companies way more than multiple success non-live service games.
it would be nice if they did things like allow community servers but then that would eat into the potential* customers for their next release
This i find so infuriating. If there is no legal way available to enjoy an IP because the right holder is discontinueing service, it should automatically become public domain, be it books, movies or games.
Iirc. the US even has a law, that land not used by the owner for a long time can be legally used by anyone. Why do we not do the same for IP, where noone is actually losing something?
It definitely should. No digital work can endure a century before it's completely lost. The copyright length we have today is a death sentence for a large chunk of our culture.
The Mouse gets mad when you talk like that that's why
For all their flaws, Valve and Minecraft show it can be done. You can have both a monetizable live service and user hostable servers.