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

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[โ€“] anakin78z@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I could see this leading to standardizing and outsourcing multiplayer services, which would be interesting.

That being said, before that happens, as a developer I'd be like: here's a zip file with all of our proprietary stuff ripped out. Have fun spending the next few months getting it to work well. Congratulations, you're now supporting a game that did poorly enough for us to drop it.

But seriously, go sign it. Long term it should be a good thing.

[โ€“] rozPierog 4 points 3 months ago

I'm old enough to remember when dedicated servers were the norm.

Oh sweet times before the matchmaking

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