This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

    • FMT99@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      No it’s the great cleansing where… checks notes… billionaires crush the working classes by taking away their free virtual pets?

      • brockpriv@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Because paying for the servers to keep the game online cost more money than what they make out of it.

        • drspod@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          What servers? It probably stores a few KB of data per player.