shutting down most central servers is a death sentence anyway. I'm not putting another decade of grinding into a private server when my Diablo 3 characters are gone.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah... For battle royal and extraction shooters I think it would also be pretty hard to come close to the experience on private servers.

Granted, I wouldn't mind being able to play e.g. Hunt Showdown with some friends on a private server/in a private match. It wouldn't be what it is today, but it could still be fun.

It's not like games with large populations are really getting shut down anyways. The games that are killed are already dead for most people. I really only am bothered by it when it's a clearly single player/offline friendly game.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

BRs never caught my interest but I always assumed they where a clean slate each game, which is actually the perfect kind of game for private servers.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 6 months ago

The thing about them is you need people to be at close to the same skill level or they're just not fun.

[–] MisterChief@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. But not impossible. Insignia got original Halo 2 Xbox Live servers back online. Most nights you can find a game easily with 20-40 people online during peak hours. It requires a soft mod and maybe 1-2 hours of set up to get online. If anyone could just turn on their old Xbox and play, I'm confident those numbers would be in the hundreds at least.

Allowing people to run private servers is an easy way to allow those that want to play to keep playing in an era where most games have some level of online functionality.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

It requires a soft mod and maybe 1-2 hours of set up to get online.

My Xbox 360 is gathering dust because, unlike all my other consoles, I am not able to mod it myself :/ (softmod).

I did not know the original Xbox had a softmod though.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But it does for proprietary code.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months 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.