• dukemirage@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      And in principle I’m fine with an online store that only sells conventional, offline singleplayer games to not give a pickle about service games.

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        10 hours ago

        There are a number of old LAN games there too. It’s basically the only place I can feasibly shop for multiplayer shooters at the moment. The sad part is that I think the newest one is Crysis Wars, from 2008.

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          9 hours ago

          Of course, and many singleplayer games had multiplayer modes, that stuff wasn’t necessarily separated.

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            9 hours ago

            For a number of these, they’re often games that had GameSpy servers or otherwise the online multiplayer portion of it was shut down, yet the game and multiplayer remain playable, and that’s what SKG is about.

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        Good to know but I’m not sure how that’s relevant to the principle originally being discussed.

        The movement is about the legal right to keep what you paid for *period*. If you’re “fine” with publishers killing service games today, you’re just signaling to the industry that you’ll be fine with them adding mandatory online check-ins to your favorite single-player games tomorrow.

        Apathy toward a principle usually ends with losing the privilege you thought was safe… Food for thought.