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EA Will Shut Down Online Servers For These 12 Games By The End Of The Year (www.gamespot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's absolutely fair, it will never happen, but I think it should. If you want a game that has online aspects of it and no longer want to host it that's fine, but then the game should be mandated to go open source and you officially relinquish the copyright. I think that's a very fair tradeoff, you don't want to pay for servers anymore which means you don't think there's any profit left in it, so prove it by making it FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

and you officially relinquish the copyright. I think that’s a very fair tradeoff

Indeed. Specifically, if a company wants to benefit from society-funded copyright enforcement, then society must get something worthy of the cost. In this case, that's the cultural enrichment brought by the game. If the game vanishes, then the company hasn't held up their end of the deal.