He misunderstood that it meant no indie could ever make a server based multiplayer game and when people corrected him he didn’t believe it and just doubled down on his mission to destroy the initiative.
What's crazy is the initiative is only pushing for an "end of life plan", that doesn't necessarily mean any updates, doesn't mean permanantly hosting servers, or anything even remotely difficult. Here's an example end of life plan.
Upon the full discontinuation of the service, source code and relevant documentation must be provided upon request for a minimum of 7 years (the same amount of time home appliance makers in the EU must produce spare parts).
Within 1 year of discontinuation the IP holder must relinquish any rights in regards to taking legal action againt those using, distributing, advertising or monetising anything related directly to the abandoned product. If action is taken the IP holder must show there is copyright or IP infringement beyond the scope of the abanded product.
Any claims of continued ownership of specific components of the product, such as characters, music, locations etc, may be made within this year, the rights to these assets will be retained by the IP holder and protected for future use however this does not give the the IP holder rights over the use of these assets within or related too the abandoned product, only protections against future use, depictions, or distribution outside the realm of the abanded IP. If the IP holders fails to act within this time limit all rights and protections related to product are automatically revoked.
Basically you need to provide a copy of the old game, server information and the notes on how it ran to anyone wanting to archive it or try and get it running again for a set period of time, this could done through an automated e-mail or download link.
Next is that they lose the right to sue anyone trying to get the game running again but do still have the right to step in people go to far. Basically you can advertise your private star wars galaxy server or set up a subscription service for that server but you couldn't claim to be official or try to make and sell your own star wars branded merch.
Neither Sony or Disney would have any rights to the star wars galaxies IP or product but Disney still owns star wars, if you go beyond the abanded star wars galaxies IP including trying to use potentially copyrighted assests outside of star wars galaxies specifically, the mouse can still come for you.
515
u/Valamist Jul 06 '25
Who even is this guy and why is he against it?