even online game servers can be questionable- like starcraft2 and diablo3(and 4) requiring them when they would be perfectly fine to play on lan only without an

even online game servers can be questionable- like starcraft2 and diablo3(and 4) requiring them when they would be perfectly fine to play on lan only without any online servers like diablo2 and sc1 Or the many FPS games, basically all of them, that now require online servers ran by the company rather than letting users run their own the way all fps games used to. (and a dishonorable mention to the subset of CoD games that let you 'run your own server' but only by paying them to spin up another game server in their existing data centers)