Why would they even need “dedicated servers”? Why not just make a local multiplayer component like the good old days?

>Character is above fiction! Above the author even!
>The author still has to be the one to make them do the thing.
This is why I always found the "character is above fiction" thing to be a nonfeat. The character never comes out into our reality to do...anything. Never comes to say hello, or punch someone, the author still has to be the one to make them do it, and they never actually do it.