News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games.

Re:EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games by neito on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @03:53PM (#8564179)
I'm kinda disappointed that they're carving out a huge exception for MMO-style games. If anything, I think that (if only due to the social structures that evolve within them) they're the most valuable but fragile types of online games.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games by Zikes on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @04:00PM (#8564221)
Allegiance [1] is an example of this happening in the MMO space.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(video_game)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games by FranOntanaya on Thursday November 06, 2014 @09:23AM (#8567078)
And for further reference: http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index.php?act=home

This game has really great mechanics with a really huge emphasis on teamwork. It was probably ahead of its time when it was released.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games by viewer5 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @10:59AM (#8567582)
At work so I can't click the link--is that game still alive? I played it a little when I was in high school.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games by FranOntanaya on Saturday November 15, 2014 @06:30AM (#8611465)
Friday nights and weekends, although I haven't played it in years, basically since I switched to Linux.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games by thefreeman on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @09:03PM (#8565429)
My first instinct was that they wanted to avoid going head to head with Blizzard on this, at least initially.
[ Parent | on HN ]