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7/4/2025, 1:02:41 AM
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> So you think a dev selling a multiplayer game for 60 bucks only to shut off servers permanently after hitting the initial player bump is a-ok?
Yes, it's OK. You can just... NOT BUY THOSE GAMES. Some games may burn brightly but briefly. Others will stay with you forever. That's the beauty of a free market—you can choose what YOU LIKE. You're not obligated to buy every game or agree to every condition. It's your money, and only you decide how to spend it.
> the gaming industry is already turbo shit. you can't make it worse.
At the very least, they might start factoring the costs of preserving a game after its shutdown into the product's price, which would immediately drive up prices.
It could also reduce the number of attempts to create a new hype-driven game like Fortnite, meaning fewer live-service games. Let me remind you that, although 95% of live-service games fail, the remaining 5% transform the industry for the better.
> Have you ever eaten euro food?
> Believe it or not it's not pumped full of corn syrup and has actual meat in it. Your food is absolute garbage, your product are made to fail and laden with ads.
Easy, friend. If you're okay with it, that's your right. I'm not judging you. I'm just stating the fact that all the most popular food brands are American. Everyone knows American cuisine, but from European cuisine, people only know pizza. And even then, only because Americans took the concept and made it better than the Italians did.
> So you think a dev selling a multiplayer game for 60 bucks only to shut off servers permanently after hitting the initial player bump is a-ok?
Yes, it's OK. You can just... NOT BUY THOSE GAMES. Some games may burn brightly but briefly. Others will stay with you forever. That's the beauty of a free market—you can choose what YOU LIKE. You're not obligated to buy every game or agree to every condition. It's your money, and only you decide how to spend it.
> the gaming industry is already turbo shit. you can't make it worse.
At the very least, they might start factoring the costs of preserving a game after its shutdown into the product's price, which would immediately drive up prices.
It could also reduce the number of attempts to create a new hype-driven game like Fortnite, meaning fewer live-service games. Let me remind you that, although 95% of live-service games fail, the remaining 5% transform the industry for the better.
> Have you ever eaten euro food?
> Believe it or not it's not pumped full of corn syrup and has actual meat in it. Your food is absolute garbage, your product are made to fail and laden with ads.
Easy, friend. If you're okay with it, that's your right. I'm not judging you. I'm just stating the fact that all the most popular food brands are American. Everyone knows American cuisine, but from European cuisine, people only know pizza. And even then, only because Americans took the concept and made it better than the Italians did.
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