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[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"They can't run servers forever!" Open source the server then Let people who want to play it run it themselves then

EDIT: typo

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember being able to run a private World of Warcraft server on my computer back in like, 2009. Surely if WoW can be reverse-engineered, so can many other titles.

But yes, it would obviously be better if they’d just open-source it.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Surely if WoW can be reverse-engineered, so can many other titles.

This is solving wrong problem. Or rather, this problem should not exist at all.