>mfw some corporate bootlicker always comes to the rescue of the multimillion dollar company by declaring that this movement is demanding they keep the game's servers running
It's just so fucking hard for them to release private server software, or release the source code, or actually update the game so the resources it'd normally get from the central server are just client side so the damn thing works. Knockout City was abandoned by EA and yet the devs after failing to keep it up themselves released a version that works off private servers, the game is abandonware but still playable. Literally what excuse does any big budget company have to not do the bare minimum? The fucking AVENGERS game had a proper EOL plan and that was killed alongside Crystal Dynamics in the same damn breath.