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This requires companies to have an end-of-life plan for their games should the company wish to take down their servers. It does not require source code for the

This requires companies to have an end-of-life plan for their games should the company wish to take down their servers. It does not require source code for the centralized servers, only the binaries. In the case of bankruptcy, the end-of-life plan would be part of the assets sold with the game.

wilg 1y ago
Do the binaries have to be usable forever? Or for how long? What if some system update breaks them?
- maplant 1y ago
  They don't, they just need to be usable at end of life. The proposal is purposefully very lenient
  - wilg 1y ago
    Can they include a dead man's switch so they become unusable one day later?
    - maplant 1y ago
      I think so, as long as it's not reliant on a central server!
- Volundr 1y ago
  Nope! Do I need a fleet of servers to run it? No problem! Do I need a specific release.minor.patch of FreeBSD? No problem! Do I need your proprietary kernel patches? Yeah you need to release those. Or do you have tooling that allows your devs to run it on their machines without the server components (most online games do)? Releasing that instead is also an option.