The response to these news are surprisingly meek, but I guess we can attribute that to the game in question not having a large player base. I for one think this

The response to these news are surprisingly meek, but I guess we can attribute that to the game in question not having a large player base. I for one think this behaviour is unacceptable and it destroys gaming as an industry. In 20 years will the teenagers/kids of today have no way of playing the games they grew up with simply because the servers have been turned off? Patching DRM out of the game and releasing server software to allow people to host their own servers should be industry standard in these cases. This is must surely be the result of politics at a much higher level than the studio, I don't think any studio likes to see their game just disappear of the surface of the earth just like that; after all that would be the equivalent of murdering ones child.