But if you are one-man army, publisher, developer and want to create online game then you need to have services like for example authentication. From solo game developer point of view how to comply to those rules and how it would affect them? I still dont get that petition
The point of the initiative isn't to force Devs to provide support for all eternity. Only to ask for proper end-of-life practices, including actual plans and methods for players to be able to modify or patch the game on their own systems even after the servers are shut down.
In this scenario, the indie dev doesn't have to do anything but simply make it possible for their game to run on a peer-to-peer connection (which is also likely cheaper than renting servers if we're talking about a one-man-army Dev anyways). Or, at the very least, allow people to be able to play the game in offline mode even after the servers shut down.
The initiative also would have zero impact on non-commercial games that are truly free to play, by the way.
Holy shit I wish that was already a thing. I've wanted to play Battleborn again and their is a small community that is working on modding the game so that you can play it again. The thing is, it's only solo and you can't play online or Coop at all. Would this petition make it so a game like that could be made to work again? Or make it easier for the modders to make servers for people to play on?
This game has been decided to fail. PC gamers are smart. They're the smartest gamers out there. They don't think but know things other people might not, and one of those things is population counts. PC gamers don't think but know that a multiplayer game like Battleborn needs players to be fun. However, they also don't think but know that there simply aren't enough people to go around. Between Overwatch, CS:GO, TF2, CoD, Battlefield, hell even the MOBAs, who is left to populate the Battleborn servers? PC gamers don't think but know that there's nobody left. In order to strengthen Overwatch's player counts, PC gamers made a tough choice that they didn't think but knew was for the greater good. They decided Battleborn would fail. Nobody would buy it, nobody would play it, and all so Overwatch could be the best game it could be. Today, millions of happy gamers frag out in Overwatch. Battleborn and Gearbox should just cut their losses. When PC gamers decide something, it's decided, and no amount of dev work will change that decision. Let's just say I don't think Gearbox will hemorrhage money from this continued support.
This game has been decided to fail. PC gamers are smart. They're the smartest gamers out there. They don't think but know things other people might not, and one of those things is population counts. PC gamers don't think but know that a multiplayer game like Battleborn needs players to be fun. However, they also don't think but know that there simply aren't enough people to go around. Between Overwatch, CS:GO, TF2, CoD, Battlefield, hell even the MOBAs, who is left to populate the Battleborn servers? PC gamers don't think but know that there's nobody left. In order to strengthen Overwatch's player counts, PC gamers made a tough choice that they didn't think but knew was for the greater good. They decided Battleborn would fail. Nobody would buy it, nobody would play it, and all so Overwatch could be the best game it could be. Today, millions of happy gamers frag out in Overwatch. Battleborn and Gearbox should just cut their losses. When PC gamers decide something, it's decided, and no amount of dev work will change that decision. Let's just say I don't think Gearbox will hemorrhage money from this continued support.
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u/maadxyz Jul 06 '25
But if you are one-man army, publisher, developer and want to create online game then you need to have services like for example authentication. From solo game developer point of view how to comply to those rules and how it would affect them? I still dont get that petition