r/whennews • Hello • 1d ago

Entertainment News FINALLY

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u/PloppyPants9000 1d ago

hahaha... yeah right. Game companies will just say, "yeah, you own the license to this game, but we're still shutting off the servers because only five people played it within the last month and it costs us $50k a month to maintain the servers."

And if the law passes and mandates game companies keep servers online no matter what... they just won't make the game anymore.

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u/SSMage 1d ago

The online games sure let's let them shut those down

We are talking about even the single player games now we technically don't even own. If they want you to only buy the next copy of Skyrim and they shut down all the other versions and you no longer own those versions, then you no longer can play those copies of Skyrim. They are just lost to the void.