> new games increasingly incorporate planned obsolescence as a business strategy It's not this. It's simply that the level of quality and features and competit

> new games increasingly incorporate planned obsolescence as a business strategy It's not this. It's simply that the level of quality and features and competition in modern games is so insanely high that developer time is devoted to other things and custom servers and modding is relatively niche and doesn't move the quality needle enough. Time is limited and focusing on custom servers means less time spent elsewhere.