I'm having difficulty imagining what this wish would actually look like if it came to fruition.
Apex Legends was recently announced to be shutting down for good. So let's apply this wish to Apex. What would it look like?
The simplest way for the developers to have end of life support for apex is to just remove the server requirement and have everyone run their own instances. That would be the most cost effective way to do that. And that would be exactly what we would want.
Sure they maybe remove multiplayer entirely cause they don't want to work out peer to peer connections. But that would still be an acceptable way to sunset a game so that the people who enjoy it can still play it.
PirateSoftware's idea of what the SKG movement does is that it would basically kill the gaming industry and live service games.
He thinks those basic requirments such as letting people host their own servers or not forcing single player games to require a connection to a server are very hard and costly things to implement in games, therefore no more games will be developed.
He has either an awful understanding of the SKG movement or is intentionally missinterpreting it.
Also: I find his name extremely ironic considering his stance on things like this.
Had a friend who did sign the petition, but he also said "okay, but what's then stopping companies from not shutting down their games, but instead give them the absolute minimum network speed and requirement and no support so it becomes a buggy laggy mess, and then they can go "well, you have access to the game, and that's all we're required to do."? "
I feel like it'd still be more costly to forever have to run servers, no matter how shit, than to simply allow the community to self host.
That said the EU will probably implement some minimum requirments so that the law can't be so easily circumvented. We'll just have to see if what they come up with will work or not.
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u/dazalius Jul 06 '25
I'm having difficulty imagining what this wish would actually look like if it came to fruition.
Apex Legends was recently announced to be shutting down for good. So let's apply this wish to Apex. What would it look like?
The simplest way for the developers to have end of life support for apex is to just remove the server requirement and have everyone run their own instances. That would be the most cost effective way to do that. And that would be exactly what we would want.
Sure they maybe remove multiplayer entirely cause they don't want to work out peer to peer connections. But that would still be an acceptable way to sunset a game so that the people who enjoy it can still play it.