I will not congratulate a terror regime that murders it‘s population in the thousands but I see the irony in big tech supporting Trump and now get to feel the consequences.

On one hand developers should always give players a way to play their games indefinitely. That should be a basic consumer right and I hope Stop Killing Games can change something.

But on the other hand I would lie if I said I‘d actually use it. I never had the desire to hop into a dead online game out of curiosity and I think at least 99.9% of players feel the same way. Because what makes these games great is the active community.

These things came and went after popularity faded. They need people to stay invested to legitimize their own existence. Pure nostalgia is not enough to preserve games even if developers release the server code. It‘s simply not that easy. I think it‘s important to be aware that communities make online games great and when there is no community then there is no game.

Highguard could release their server code tomorrow, but more people would mock them for it than applaud them. Virtually nobody would play it still.

No I don‘t because I don‘t live in an Orwellian hellhole (yet) like most people seem to do these days. Even if I did your comment is an admission of absolute capitulation. What a sad worldview.

Are you ignoring the whole subsidies thing on purpose? This is not BYD attacking Tesla. This is the Chinese government attacking western industries.

Call me conservative but I think that would still suck. A society where everyone has a camera on their nose pointing at you sounds absolutely dreadful.

That‘s the main problem in Europe as well. I don‘t mind tariffs on heavily subsidized cars that are designed not to make profit but to destroy our industries. However, even then our manufacturers are in a constant crisis mode and unable to adapt. It‘s really pathetic.

But hey, when the car lobby is dead maybe that means more trains and cycling paths in the long run? Perhaps there‘s an opportunity here.

The point both of you deliberately overlook is that China is not participating in a free market anyway. They never played by those rules so there‘s no point in treating them the same way as anyone who does. There is a lot of hypocrisy to be found in politics and economics around the world and China itself is a prime example of that. But a measure to defend yourself from an obvious case of economic warfare is the most understandable thing in history. Your criticism is misplaced and irrational. I mean do you seriously think a monopoly is desirable?

It didn‘t sell so no, it‘s not simply a grift. It’s just that nobody wanted it.

I genuinely wouldn‘t say so. The game shuts down because nobody played it anyway. The chances you pick up a game no one plays is pretty slim by nature. But even if you have been burned in the past you can just pick up one that is already popular.

Pre-ordering on the other hand is rarely a good idea and that goes for any game, not just live service.

Even if things get deleted we‘re still on the internet and everything is posted public and exposed to being scrapped the second you submit something. Your anonymity is your best friend here, I think.

I mean it really isn‘t based. Not at all. But it surely does what you expect to happen when you keep poking in a hornet’s nest.

Did you mean Microslop and… actually, Discord doesn‘t even need a clever nickname.

Chat (G)reedy (P)ower hungry (T)errorists.

Companies that use Outlook use Microslop Teams for communication anyway. I work for one of those and honestly? Not my problem. I can‘t make them use open source software and I‘m not paid enough to convince them.

We wouldn‘t even need it for that if their Windows store versions of browsers weren‘t so terrible.

Chinese company capitalizing off of foreign socialist structures for profit? Say it ain‘t so!

Good. I mean good riddance o7

My teachers taught me to never ever give my personal data away to strangers for my own safety. Now politicians want to force everyone to do just that. For safety reasons…

Why the hell would you use an AI tool for giant data sets of sensible data? Someone needs to go to jail and that company shouldn‘t exist any longer.

The em-dashes in the title don‘t fill me with confidence for this article about slop.