100%! Every single developer I’ve ever met has been adamant about watching their work, hours of their life, be killed off on a financial basis! They told me so personally!
Well, that would spoil the fun, wouldn’t it! I mean, that soul-whittling existential anxiety I get whenever I pick up an online-only game is 90% of the reason why I play them in the first place!
Nobody’s asking them to keep the servers running indefinitely.
Also, why not just release a docker image of your server plus a docker-compose/kubernetes deployment definition? You’re usually using cloud hosting and automated deployment anyways, so you probably already have one laying around anyways…
100%! Every single developer I’ve ever met has been adamant about watching their work, hours of their life, be killed off on a financial basis! They told me so personally!
And they especially don’t want end users to be informed about the game’s life expectancy before they pay for it!
Well, that would spoil the fun, wouldn’t it! I mean, that soul-whittling existential anxiety I get whenever I pick up an online-only game is 90% of the reason why I play them in the first place!
Also, why not just release a docker image of your server plus a docker-compose/kubernetes deployment definition? You’re usually using cloud hosting and automated deployment anyways, so you probably already have one laying around anyways…