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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Truly so shocked. Anyway, pretty obvious since the biggest reason these companies refuse to even release the server component (as opposed to making the game playable offline) is that they can then either "remaster" the game and release it again in like a decade or just release it again with maybe a couple features added and call it v2.0.

[–] ren@reddthat.com 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Nintendo is doing exactly that (pulling games from stores, letting them die). Now that they have more invasive DRM in their latest console, they might even take a more active approach like Ubisoft wegen it comes to live service games. Let's just "sunset" Mario kart world live service and brick it in a couple of years?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

What kind of aggressive DRM? Wouldn't the same kind of hack as usual work? As in, hack the hardware, every game becomes playable?

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