Anonymous
7/2/2025, 7:17:04 PM
No.105778896
>>105778814
A sunset policy and making it illegal to turn off games does not incur future costs on the developers. What this means is games should be designed to 1) allow self-hosted servers and 2) be run offline. A game like Call of Duty should never require the developer's servers to function, every lobby should be able to be self-hosted.
MMOs can be the single exception to this as the purpose of the game is the MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER part with no practical or reasonable expectation to self-hosting but I think it could be reasonable to have a tax credit to MMOs that release with open-source self-hosted server options.
A sunset policy and making it illegal to turn off games does not incur future costs on the developers. What this means is games should be designed to 1) allow self-hosted servers and 2) be run offline. A game like Call of Duty should never require the developer's servers to function, every lobby should be able to be self-hosted.
MMOs can be the single exception to this as the purpose of the game is the MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER part with no practical or reasonable expectation to self-hosting but I think it could be reasonable to have a tax credit to MMOs that release with open-source self-hosted server options.