This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

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you will own nothing and you will be happy.

It was a free ‘game’ that was little more than a tutorial 🤷‍♂️

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It’s not like it’s never happened to paid full games before.

*cries in Battleborn*

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Don’t you fucking dare say that name. I have never in my life seen a game with so much promise be self fucked so hards by it’s own devs that it kills the game in its tracks.

NO ONE FUCKING ASKED FOR A BATTLE ROYALE - AND WE SURE AS SHIT DIDNT ASK FOR PAID BATTLE ROYALE SEPARATE FROM THE MAIN GAME.

…UGH.

EDIT: I WAS THINKING OF BATTLERITE BUT MY FRUSTRATION IS STILL VERY REAL.

Ever hear of SOCOM?

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No it’s the great cleansing where… checks notes… billionaires crush the working classes by taking away their free virtual pets?

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So why do they need to remove it?

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Because Zuck’s dreams of a post-life in his metaverse are crumbling.

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Because paying for the servers to keep the game online cost more money than what they make out of it.

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What servers? It probably stores a few KB of data per player.

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And that isn’t making them money, so they scrap it.

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