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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 63 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If your game requires a server for single player content, I ain't buying it.

I'm not paying full price and getting a rental.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It shouldn't require a server that I can't control for multiplayer either.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Only exception to this is if I can run the server myself. Even multiplayer games I feel somewhat cautious about now.

Me building mega castles on my one man modded Rust server.

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

V rising kind of does this but a single player game is just called a server it's on your local machine though.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And I kind of hate that