• @[email protected]
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    919 hours ago

    Live service means the content comes from the company’s servers, and likely changes rapidly. The quintessential example is Fortnite. Updates are expected, not merely necessary fixes. Duke Nukem 3D had all the content installed on your computer from day one, without expectation that it would change (unless you made your own maps, or downloaded maps other USERS made).

    • @Machinist
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      619 hours ago

      That shit sounds addictive as fuck for the right kind of brain. Thanks for the explanation! .

    • @[email protected]
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      419 hours ago

      Live service also means with every update are new forms of monetization (cough cough skin microtransactions), because according to the c suite, live service means continuous profit, or whatever the fuck that means