A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers “killing games.”

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    3 months ago

    While simply allowing the game to use a variable for the server URL is easy, the VAST majority of gamers would assume it’d come with a clean server installer and the ability to set the URL in some kind of UI.

    Both of those details are very much NOT simple in many cases. Sure, quite a few well written games, it could be done quickly, but as someone who’s worked on software for decades … it’s NEVER well written. Especially when video game studio style crunch is involved.

    This is still a good petition and good idea, but to assume “just a few hours” is … simply ignorant.