>~2500BC - 2009AD
>game is a thing you own
>2009AD - ongoing
>um akschually, game is service of indeterminate length that I reserve the right to destroy on a whim
>it is impossible to make games that don't self destruct, games were never things you owned

Listening to all of the developer interviews surrounding this topic, all of them seem to imply that local hosting is a lost technology because developers are lazy and modern games are an unoptimized Frankenstein's monster of prefabs