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A comment on California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down. Parent comment

Re:California bill would require patches or refunds when onl... by furyofantares on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:52PM (#48185462)
> There was never any reason not to have included that code in the client to support LAN play from the start.

Yes there was. It was a 3 person team. That's a good enough reason to not have almost any feature that requires any amount of work, including UI work, because there is always a whole mountain of stuff that you're not doing that you'd like to do as a 3-person dev team.

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Re:California bill would require patches or refunds when onl... by fluoridation on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:22AM (#48218211)
It's more work to implement the server as a separate program that you additionally have to keep running and load-balance than to build the server into the game.
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