Anonymous
7/6/2025, 9:03:59 PM
No.714698889
Fucking industry corpo fucktards.
>Private servers not viable because uh....
>we uh..moderate stuff and we'll get sued if you fuckers screw up
So long as its obvious that a private server, much like a mod, is not official game content there is no reason to think there is any major liability on the original publisher. Hell, I know no newfags will remember it but the niche european MMO Ryzom (it was surprisingly well done and had unique races and lore outside of the normal things, as well as live events) shut down as a for profit endeavor and turned the whole thing open source and to the community to manage - its basically a FOSS private server that gets updates and even has subscribers these days. City of Heroes was secretly exfiltrated out of NCSoft's hands when it shut down, developed in secret and (despite some autist fuckery between different communities) released private servers with ALL the in game content and more, with updates since. Don't even get me started on EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, and WoW private servers.
This whole thing feels like an exercise in IP control rather than anything else, the desire to keep something unplayable in a locker for a decade or more so you don't have any legal issues when you try to reboot it and/or you claim its part of your IP roster when you sell your company to another vulture to pick the bones.
>Private servers not viable because uh....
>we uh..moderate stuff and we'll get sued if you fuckers screw up
So long as its obvious that a private server, much like a mod, is not official game content there is no reason to think there is any major liability on the original publisher. Hell, I know no newfags will remember it but the niche european MMO Ryzom (it was surprisingly well done and had unique races and lore outside of the normal things, as well as live events) shut down as a for profit endeavor and turned the whole thing open source and to the community to manage - its basically a FOSS private server that gets updates and even has subscribers these days. City of Heroes was secretly exfiltrated out of NCSoft's hands when it shut down, developed in secret and (despite some autist fuckery between different communities) released private servers with ALL the in game content and more, with updates since. Don't even get me started on EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies, and WoW private servers.
This whole thing feels like an exercise in IP control rather than anything else, the desire to keep something unplayable in a locker for a decade or more so you don't have any legal issues when you try to reboot it and/or you claim its part of your IP roster when you sell your company to another vulture to pick the bones.