Honestly, there needs to be laws that when you buy software you get a licence to do as you please without commercial usage with it, and you get the source.
Imagine if HP had just given Stallman drivers for his printer all those years ago, what a different world it’d be now.
“we can’t be bothered running a small VPS for the connection broker on Azure waah waah” says the big corporation
The reality is I bet it required servers with some grunt for physics. Still no excuse though, exit should have been designed-in… Well… I guess it was… The exit plan was always to pull the plug and tell the consumer to suck one.
I’m tired of it being like this, every single time.
Its because money men are involved. They’re not places for artisans, game studios are more like setting up a heist team to sell as many copies and produce the minimum viable product with maximum razzle dazzle to empty the marks wallet as fast as possible.
It helps that idealistic enthusiastic young people keep wanting to make games for these ghouls.
Honestly, there needs to be laws that when you buy software you get a licence to do as you please without commercial usage with it, and you get the source.
Imagine if HP had just given Stallman drivers for his printer all those years ago, what a different world it’d be now.