Re:Game developer loses multiplayer service code
by jsnell on Sunday September 08, 2019 @01:51PM
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It was only made free to play after the blog post. Before that it was a $10 game: https://steamdb.info/app/237870/
My guess is they could fix the problems, but it would cost an engineer a month? or a couple months? Considering the game was on the decline, it's hard to justify spending any effort to fix the issues.
Now the weird part. It was a F2P game - I don't know how much stuff people were buying in the game, but there's an implied contract that when you purchase a digital good, the digital good will continue to work for some reasonable amount of time. They are breaking that agreement by not restoring their servers and I am not sure what that means legally - there's potential for class action lawsuits, maybe?