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Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware (www.youtube.com)
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[–] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep. And wtf happened with LAN multiplayer? Even the Beta from Diablo II Ressurected had it, but they REMOVED IT from the release version. I call BS on what this Thor guy is saying.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Blizzard swore off local multiplayer after what happened with StarCraft esports. The Korean leagues ran huge tournaments and made a ton of money off Blizzard's IP and essentially told them to pound sand. Now everything has to go through their servers so they control the ecosystem.

Same with how Blizzard now owns every custom game you make. They learned their lesson with DOTA/LOL and feel like all that money should be theirs.

All of which seems to indicate that this is a real problem. People can play Brood War forever, but what happens when the SC2 servers go down?

[–] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Which is pretty stupid, if you ask me. Owning the mods and custom maps just killed the community around it.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

I imagine fans have already found a way to create their own servers for that very instance. Just to ensure this type of stuff cannot happen to those hardcore dedicated fans.