bigdogchris
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I don't expect companies to keep online games up indefinitely, offer downloads indefinitely, and I don't expect companies to allow you to play on their servers for free.
But I think companies could do better at either 1 ) Giving players the server to host themself like they used to 2) allow players to use their client for LAN like they used to and 3) Offline games should be patched to remove DRM after some point so that if they pull it from sale you can still play it once you have it downloaded.
Why not compromise?
But of course all of these in some way result in possible loss of sales and or increased cost on the publisher side, so of course it doesn't happen.
But I think companies could do better at either 1 ) Giving players the server to host themself like they used to 2) allow players to use their client for LAN like they used to and 3) Offline games should be patched to remove DRM after some point so that if they pull it from sale you can still play it once you have it downloaded.
Why not compromise?
But of course all of these in some way result in possible loss of sales and or increased cost on the publisher side, so of course it doesn't happen.