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Nacon exec says industry's problem is "too many games" (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Any multiplayer game will die once its community moves on. Whether it's live service or not and one could argue live service helps prolong a game's time in the spotlight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

007 Agent Under Fire came out in 2001, and you can still play it in multiplayer as long as you have a single friend handy. Same goes for Quake, even older. Live service games offer you no way to play them once their servers are turned off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I see lots of MMOs that become ran by the community on private servers after the developer stops supporting it. It's crap when companies try to stop that, but the game being a live service isn't a problem in itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not servers offered by the developers/publishers (as far as I know, with the one exception of Knockout City), which makes it an unreliable option at best. You can't exactly spin up a private server for Rumbleverse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm still playing Unreal Tournament 2004 just fine with bots. I don't need a community to play Project Zomboid with my SO. Your claim is factually incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, playing ut2004 with bots surely replicates the original experience...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It replicates it well enough for me to still be playing it regularly 20 years later and well enough to debunk the myth that every multiplayer game must automatically become unplayable with time ("die") solely due to the fact that it's multiplayer.

I can also still play UT2K4 with my friends, should I want to. I can't do either of these with a "live service" game where there is no offline mode or self-hostable servers.

Also, you ignored my mention of PZ, which is a multiplayer-enabled game which also won't die when the developer dies (or abandons the game).