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vntok on July 11, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable e...

Lol no that's not how it works. Imposing a company to maintain expensive equipment forever in echange for a ~$60 one-shot payment is crazy.

account42 on July 12, 2022 | [–]

They don't have to architect their games to require that. Even for multiplayer games they can always choose to provide the server side parts for others to host.

wiseleo on July 12, 2022 | [–]

What expensive equipment? It's a VM.

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