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EA Will Shut Down Online Servers For These 12 Games By The End Of The Year
(www.gamespot.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Selling online games and then shutting down the service should forfeit the right to interfere with reverse engineering projects. Maybe even require opening up the service specs so reverse engineering wouldn't be needed.
Yeah, we need solutions to this issue as it's happening more and more with always-online games. We're at risk of losing all these games to history without the ability to keep them in the archives
Just allow user hosted servers like back in the day