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Spellbreak, Shut Down When Its Developer Was Acquired By Blizzard, Is Still Alive - Aftermath (aftermath.site)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I remember being hyped for the launch of the game, because this looked amazing. It was one of the few live service games I waited for. Then it happened, they went with an exclusivity deal on Epic Games store and it was over for me. And apparently for the game, because it was shutdown as I remember.

I never heard they posted a free version with servers you could host yourself. Why nobody told me! This is actually the best possible case (besides going Open Source) for live service games that shutdown.

My question is, is this game playable on Linux (through Proton)? Does it use Easy Anti Cheat? I don't know how this works if this is self hosted, so probably not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is a shining example proving that games don't need to die. Especially if you're a company that is completely uninterested in pursuing an IP any further. When I read that they were going to post the server tools and a new client on itch I was over the moon.

Proletariat took the best approach possible with Spellbreak, whereas iron galaxy... Fuck them. The community was actively trying to reverse engineer Rumbleverse to get it running again and they shut it down. They also seem completely uninterested in bringing Rumbleverse back. (Thankfully there are still ways to self host it, it's just not as clean as it could have been).

Whenever you hear someone say it would take too much effort to give the community tools, point them to Spellbreak. Hell It would be commendable even if the company didn't give communities tools but didn't actively shut down any revival projects.

Games are art and I'm sure plenty of devs that worked on these live service games would have loved to keep working on them, but their employer told them to stop. I'm sure there are plenty of devs that would love to see their game continue to live on, but their voice doesn't matter because they aren't the decision makers. So much time and manpower just thrown out the window.

Proletariat, thank you. You are one of the good ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Always cool to see a thriving online community after a game's official shutdown. All possible because the devs released a self hosted version, something increasingly rare these days. And it works on Steam Deck? Might have to check this out.