So don’t buy a game that doesn’t come with a server you can host yourself if they ever shut down.
Honestly, that’s on the people buying those shitty games. They exist because people buy them. Sorry.
Shit like Valheim exists, shit like Project Zomboid exists, it’s not like they don’t continue to make new games in the style of Quake 2 where you can play them indefinitely, even if they’ve stopped being supported.
That’s exactly what I do. But the article is about how, even though Palworld isn’t one of those games, there’s an unhealthy expectation that every game is. And to be fair to the consumer, it’s so, so hard to find out if the game you’re buying will survive a server shutdown. Often times I have to ask the devs in Steam forums for an answer to the question, because that kind of thing isn’t clearly listed on the store page.
People (as in the People) run the market, and they are fucking morons. People also run the government, which is why there’s no legislation preventing the dark patterns and other predatory bullshit that game publishers push nowadays.
So don’t buy a game that doesn’t come with a server you can host yourself if they ever shut down.
Honestly, that’s on the people buying those shitty games. They exist because people buy them. Sorry.
Shit like Valheim exists, shit like Project Zomboid exists, it’s not like they don’t continue to make new games in the style of Quake 2 where you can play them indefinitely, even if they’ve stopped being supported.
That’s exactly what I do. But the article is about how, even though Palworld isn’t one of those games, there’s an unhealthy expectation that every game is. And to be fair to the consumer, it’s so, so hard to find out if the game you’re buying will survive a server shutdown. Often times I have to ask the devs in Steam forums for an answer to the question, because that kind of thing isn’t clearly listed on the store page.
People (as in the People) run the market, and they are fucking morons. People also run the government, which is why there’s no legislation preventing the dark patterns and other predatory bullshit that game publishers push nowadays.
The obvious solution is to fire them all and replace them with AI.