• terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The game came out in 2021. There are far older games from other publishers still up and getting updates. Stop giving these pump-and-dump games your money.

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      When did it become the expected norm to receive endless updates for a one time purchase? How is that a “pump-and-dump”? Unless the game is a buggy, broken mess (and maybe it is, I’m not familiar with FC6), once the purchase is made, any additional content or service should be considered a bonus, not a mandate.

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        Seriously. I realize people have Feelings about DRM and always-online stuff, but this is an article about a game that was never especially popular or active entering maintenance mode after a couple of years.

        They aren’t shutting it down, they aren’t making it unplayable (though of course either of those things could happen at any time etc etc) - they just are no longer producing content for a game almost no one is playing anymore anyway.

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          What’s that got to do with not making DLC for a game anymore?

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        If you buy a game and they stop updating, maintaining or even keeping the mandatory online services, the publishers are making your game worse. The quality of a digital product shouldn’t degrade over time. You should get what you paid for. It wouldn’t hurt those companies to make people able to run servers themselves.

        There really has to be some warranty for digital products, like you have for tangible products. Software companies shouldn’t be above the law.

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          Well neither my comment nor the article is about online services like DRM, so not sure how that’s super relevant. And fwiw, I don’t know of any product that requires free support for all time by law, physical or otherwise.

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          None of that applies here, FC6 is just going into maintenance mode. Online services remain up, no degradation of service, the game is available and playable.

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            From the article:

            It’s also unlikely to get many more glitch or bug fixes unless something significant emerges.

            I’d bet that rather than fixing a glaring security hole they’ll just stop the online service. It would be way more beneficial at the end of online services’ lifetimes (this game is 2 years old, mind you!) to open source or at least publish the server parts of the game.

            But that would require laws which benefit the end users and not corporations, as they’ll never do it themselves if they’re not forced to.