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Yes it does! To not allow for that is purposely delivering you a worse product than they ought to, not to mention destroying the history of our medium. It would be a damn shame if your favorite movie from 30 years ago didn't survive long enough for you to see it. That these games are designed to disappear is completely unnecessary. If the game gets repetitive after a while, that just means it's the same as every other video game. You had your fun, now put it down and play something else. In a world where your game lives on forever, words like "engagement" are meaningless. People will play a game as long as it's fun. You can play a game multiplayer as long as you have a handful of people who want to play it with you. And if it takes decades for you to boot it up again, that's fine too, as long as you're able to run the server yourself.
Summer sports leagues are bullshit because they don't last forever!
Summer sports leagues aren't a computer program that's capable of being copy and pasted ad infinitum. You can play baseball forever without someone's permission. You can play chess forever without someone's permission. Live service games are basically like putting an expiration date on chess.
Sports are able to be replayed indefinitely.
Summer sports leagues are specificly set up for a limited time engagement based on how the games play out and respond to the player base. It is a perfect comparison to well executed live service games.
Not all gsmes need single player or long term playability just like not all games need online multiplayer.
No, it's not. Because the sport doesn't disappear when the league is over. If you want to run a league for StarCraft: Brood War, you can do that with a Discord server. If you want to run a league for Hyperscape, the game is fucking gone.
You should really complain about how baseball doesn't have a single player mode.
You really should understand what the actual complaint is.
I disagree with the complaint being valid for every single game in existence.
Then go ahead and fight for your forced obsolescence. I personally prefer games and other creative works that don't arbitrarily delete themselves. Meanwhile, Ubisoft convinces people that it must be this way while they decommission one version of The Crew so that they upsell you on a sequel.
"Stop having fun!"
Sure, man. I've just been telling you to stop having fun this whole time, regardless of the problem statement in title of the article we're discussing. I think we're done here.