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'Make a private hosted version of your game': Knockout City dev's top tip for studios shutting down a live service game is to give players the keys (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

What if they did this, but the game they abandoned has some great changes and becomes super popular and gets a large playerbase?

Will they want it back? Like will they try to claim its still theirs and spin up some new servers? Only to ruin the game again.

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