A little over a year ago we discussed YouTuber Ross Scott’s attempt to build political action around video game preservation. Scott started a campaign and site called Stop Killing Games when …
Why do people trying to advocate against the movement push the narrative that source code is being asked for or that it is the only solution to make games work after it is sunset?
And fans have picked up the slack in Hitman with the peacock project when the companies lock certain things to online.
To reimplement the server side part of Hitman to run locally. So that if/when the official servers go down, anyone can still play the game. They’ve also made it easier/better to mod the game in various ways.
This includes leaderboards, contracts, game progression and unlocks, bonus/event missions, as well as being able to play elusive targets with scoring. All things that are unavailable when you play offline
So that’s what I’m guessing the movement wants. Just to leave the game in a playable state as opposed to inaccessible when servers go down. And source code wasn’t provided for these solutions.
By the way, situation with Hitman is interesting, because petition as it stands, will not address the issue with it specifically. Hitman technically has offline mode, and it’s even playable as a game. The fact that it doesn’t have that part that makes it so interesting isn’t actually addressed.
Why do people trying to advocate against the movement push the narrative that source code is being asked for or that it is the only solution to make games work after it is sunset?
Just put in an offline mode like was done for Redfall. https://www.ign.com/articles/redfalls-final-update-is-live-bringing-with-it-offline-mode-dlss-3-and-more
Knockout City provided tools for gamers to run their own private servers after it shutdown
https://www.knockoutcity.com/private-server-edition
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League has servers still running but put in an update to provide offline mode
https://dcgamessupport.wbgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/36119520746515-Suicide-Squad-Kill-the-Justice-League-Offline-Mode-FAQ
And fans have picked up the slack in Hitman with the peacock project when the companies lock certain things to online.
https://old.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/12o76t3/what_is_the_purpose_of_peacock_project_mod/
So that’s what I’m guessing the movement wants. Just to leave the game in a playable state as opposed to inaccessible when servers go down. And source code wasn’t provided for these solutions.
By the way, situation with Hitman is interesting, because petition as it stands, will not address the issue with it specifically. Hitman technically has offline mode, and it’s even playable as a game. The fact that it doesn’t have that part that makes it so interesting isn’t actually addressed.