it's a bit of a straw man from your side to act like the discussion is about multiplayer when we are discussing about single player campaign based RPGs or about multiplayer when the company deliberately shuts it down in favour of a new version that just milks players for more money; or about toasters that definitely don't need internet connection to function.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it's a bit of a straw man from your side to act like the discussion is about multiplayer

The top of this thread:

If a multiplayer-only game turns down official servers, and you can't self-host within the game, they should owe players a separate server binary they can run, or a partial refund for breaking the game. It should not be hard, especially if it's a known constraint when they develop the game.

Emphasis mine.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

We used to be able to do multiplayer only without the need for official servers.