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A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers "killing games."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

The proposal is precisely about not letting your snake ass do that, since it would be no different than spinning a private server, customers shouldn't have to learn how to analyse network packages and break DRM just to play a game they paid for because you turned off your server.

Either sell it as a subscription or sell it as packaged product, not both.