Selling online games and then shutting down the service should forfeit the right to interfere with reverse engineering projects. Maybe even require opening up the service specs so reverse engineering wouldn’t be needed.
Yeah, we need solutions to this issue as it’s happening more and more with always-online games. We’re at risk of losing all these games to history without the ability to keep them in the archives
I think that’s absolutely fair, it will never happen, but I think it should. If you want a game that has online aspects of it and no longer want to host it that’s fine, but then the game should be mandated to go open source and you officially relinquish the copyright. I think that’s a very fair tradeoff, you don’t want to pay for servers anymore which means you don’t think there’s any profit left in it, so prove it by making it FOSS.
and you officially relinquish the copyright. I think that’s a very fair tradeoff
Indeed. Specifically, if a company wants to benefit from society-funded copyright enforcement, then society must get something worthy of the cost. In this case, that’s the cultural enrichment brought by the game. If the game vanishes, then the company hasn’t held up their end of the deal.
TL;DR:
EA Games Shutting Down By The End Of 2023
September 7, 2023
Crysis 3 for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One (backwards compatibility), Steam and EA App
October 10, 2023
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 for Xbox 360 and on PlayStation 3
October 30, 2023
Restaurant DASH: Gordon Ramsay for Apple, Google, and Amazon
November 6, 2023
FIFA 18 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
FIFA 19 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
FIFA 20 for Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
FIFA 21 for Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
December 8, 2023
Battlefield 1943 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Battlefield Bad Company for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Battlefield Bad Company 2 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Dead Space 2 on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360
Dante’s Inferno on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360
Huh 1943 was still up, was a nice remake from what I recall. I understand the whole shutting down games sucks but this list isn’t highly played I assume. No offense meant to those who play it, and it does suck when agame you want to play goes down. I had the opposite issue where servers were up but no one played with Shadowrun (Xbox 360)
With current battlefield you can at least mostly play Bad Company, and I assume golf has something current. But yeah sucks in it’s way but free servers and blah blah blah.
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EA Games Shutting Down By The End Of 2023
September 7, 2023
Crysis 3 for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One (backwards compatibility), Steam and EA App
October 10, 2023
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 for Xbox 360 and on PlayStation 3
October 30, 2023
Restaurant DASH: Gordon Ramsay for Apple, Google, and Amazon
November 6, 2023
FIFA 18 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
FIFA 19 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
FIFA 20 for Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
FIFA 21 for Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
December 8, 2023
Battlefield 1943 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Battlefield Bad Company for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Battlefield Bad Company 2 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Dead Space 2 on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360
Dante’s Inferno on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360
Imagine spending hundreds of dollars on fifa in 2021, just for them to shut the servers down 2 years later
“Server” means? Authentication (DRM), Multiplayer or purely online Games? I see Crysis 3 on Steam and Dead Space 2 on PC on this list, so it’s not the later.
Shitty EA being shitty
