Heard from inside source through a friend, take with a grain of salt, but that particular server was running ancient software (think very obsolete windows serve

Heard from inside source through a friend, take with a grain of salt, but that particular server was running ancient software (think very obsolete windows server version) and would have a peak of less than 10 concurrent users, worldwide. I don't think there is a business case to make here. It's a maintenance nightmare. Poor, rushed together server components. Noone still around the company that still knows how it was built. No automated tests whatsoever, so any code changes or recompile with newer libs would require important QA efforts.. I'm not saying this justify anything. It's still very bad business practice and consumers are right to be mad. Kinda was predictable though, and game publishers should have a clear EOL policy when selling a game.