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It's wild that they get away with charging for it (startrek.website)

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[–] freeman 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CoD 4 didn't come out in the late 90's. We didn't move away from dedicated servers, the dev's disabled that option going forward and not because it sucked ass, but because people who did not pay for the game could connect to private servers.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CoD didn't but Team Fortress Classic did, and helped popularize the dedicated server trend

Devs disabled it in modern games for a variety of reasons, and fighting piracy was indeed one of them.

If your problem is that you want to be able to pirate games, though, you should know that's not a winning argument and will never happen. No company is going to voluntarily support you pirating their software

[–] freeman 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See if a very popular game came in the late 00's had user ran servers we didn't actually move away from them in the late 90s even if there were games in the late 90s that did not have user servers.

With no user ran servers it's not only pirates who cannot play multiplayer games but even paying customers when the developer decides it's not worth it anymore.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

See if a very popular game came in the late 00’s had user ran servers we didn’t actually move away from them in the late 90s even if there were games in the late 90s that did not have user servers.

We did if it isn't common. "Moving away" very specifically is a term used when something isn't abandoned outright but is much less common than before

With no user ran servers it’s not only pirates who cannot play multiplayer games but even paying customers when the developer decides it’s not worth it anymore.

Yeah I'm not wholly in support of this, I'm just explaining how we got here. That seems to upset people quite a bit for reasons I cannot understand.