• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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      I tried to pick the most obvious example of an online only title.

      What’s the plan with a 100 player battle royal game?

      Edit: the guy I replied to chose to quote someone saying a game is online only, and their suggestion was to change that.

      And then ya’ll come in with replies about keeping it online only, and they have 55 upvotes as of this edit.

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        As long as people can host a server instance, does it matter?

        Hypothetically, even if it costs 1000$ per hour in AWS fees to get the required hardware to run that, at least you have the option to, alternatively have a peer to peer option to play smaller version on a LAN with a max of however many players your own network can support, there could be many implementations, which at the end of the day would still allow you to play the game when the official servers (authentication or room hosts) are shuttered and inaccessible

        The main point of SKG is that currently, we, as customers, are not even getting the short end of the stick, we are getting no stick, despite having paid for it.

        And ultimately, at the end of the day, not our problem to try to figure this out, the point is we’re unhappy with the current situation and want things to change.

        Also note that none of this is retroactive, will only apply to games released in the future, so having an end of life plan as a requirement from the get-go is pretty simple to work on when nothing was done yet.

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        Hosting your own server and playing multiplayer games over LAN is playing offline. Is that what you’re asking?

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        You can host the server on the same machine the game is running on, it’s not uncommon during development especially the early stages.

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        I can find a community for a fighting game from 2012 to get together every Thursday night for a 30-person tournament via Discord. 100 people in a battle royale could work much the same.

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          That fighting game is not online only, I bet.

          I replied to someone saying that an online only game should change their design.