RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Not quite as important as the right to repair, but close in spirit: I would love to see a legal requirement for shut-down online games to release the server specs needed for the community to replace/maintain them.

Edit: And data export for existing players, so our game progress can be reconstructed on community servers, of course.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    stopkillinggames.com

    One of their ideas is allow private match/self hosted online services for any game that shuts down it's servers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    honestly copyright law shouldn't apply to games that are no longer fully playable for any reason

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    But it does for proprietary code.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’ve found that most people on this site don’t care about copyright in any form, so they’ll just ignore it like everything else

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Well, when companies are cutting off people's purchases and wiping works from our cultural history, a little bit of disregard for the law that is complicit with it is pretty much necessary.

    Say, it's through copyright violation that we can still play games from Mario Maker 1 even though the servers were shut down. People figured out how to copy it even though they weren't allowed to.

    If this is wrong, maybe the law should be fixed to provide a proper path.

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