>>714461146>If it's an expectation from the start that the local hosting route had to be maintainedThis is the goal. There is no intention of applying it retroactively, though ideally corpos would voluntarily let some already-existing games be maintained by their communities for PR points. This already happens on occasion, but might happen more if there's an expectation of it happening in the future.
Going forward, they just have to not deliberately design games around becoming nonfunctional. It was always a choice.