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30 years later and people are actively working on these games. Amazing. What will come of future games? With all the server backend code I guess we will lose mo
by 14 5y ago
30 years later and people are actively working on these games. Amazing. What will come of future games? With all the server backend code I guess we will lose most games once the company in charge no longer wants to pay server costs due to dying player levels.
- drusepth 5y agoI think we'll see a lot of private servers, luckily. Most popular online-only games seem to have at least one PS alternative.
- nrdvana 5y agoMost games have all the assets loaded onto every client, and they just synchronize over the server like a glorified IRC channel. People reverse-engineered WoW servers, and then ran their own WoW communities for a decade until Blizzard finally decided to get back into the game. (but then Blizzard re-implemented the old content into the new engine, rather than starting up the old server code, so ended up being a lot more effort for them than just flipping a switch)