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Why did hosting your own server stop being a thing?

• dexterdog 3y ago
  Because people prefer to pay 10x as much to have apple/google/etc host it for them. It's still a thing for people who know what they're doing and the experience is vastly better and more private and secure.
• account42 3y ago
  Game companies want the centralized model so that they can stay in control of how the game is used to continuously monetize it and to forcefully retire it once they want to push a newer one.