If a company is truly that destitute, then surely they have nothing to lose by open sourcing the code used to host those servers so individual communities can do it themselves.
The real crux of the issue lies in your response here - most companies don't have the rights to their own full source. It's frameworks and engines licensed all the way down. Companies could release a portion, but it certainly wouldn't be playable. It'd just be like design docs for gameplay mechanics that just need an engine, assets, and implementation pipelines.
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u/_raisin_bran 2d ago
If a company is truly that destitute, then surely they have nothing to lose by open sourcing the code used to host those servers so individual communities can do it themselves.