• FartsWithAnAccent
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    2010 months ago

    Glad I picked up a Steam Deck: Online play shutdown = never

    • @cetvrti_magi
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      1010 months ago

      Moders will make servers like they did for Wii.

    • Tamlyn
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      710 months ago

      That’s not really true. Every game will be offline at some point if the publisher don’t want to pay for server anymore.

      • FartsWithAnAccent
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        110 months ago

        If that game relies on a corpo server, maybe, but even most of those games can likely be modded to work with local host or a “pirate” host.

        • Tamlyn
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          10 months ago

          That’s the case for nintendo games as well. There are projects to keep online alive

          • FartsWithAnAccent
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            10 months ago

            Doesn’t Nintendo have a history of shutting down any fan stuff though? PC games are usually waaaay more mod friendly.

            • Tamlyn
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              10 months ago

              There are a lit projects that doesn’t disturb nintendo’s lawyers. Nintendo doesn’t like it it people make money with their brands, take money away from them or hurt nintendo’s reputation. The Pokemon fan project ura####, got shut down because they try to get money with it, but pokemon ######(not sure if against rules) online is a online none profit project that is online now for years. You just have to understand nintendo. Alternativ online server for nintendo games, seems to be fine with them.

  • @Stovetop
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    1510 months ago

    Guessing that they announce the Switch successor before that date to mask the bad news.

    • ExperiencersInternational
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      510 months ago

      I am assuming afterwards if I’m going by eShop closure and TotK trailer 3

      I feel confident about a September release ngl

  • @Alborlin
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    10 months ago

    Do you mean that I can’t play Splatoon online after 76 days ? On Wii u?

  • Dr. Coomer
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    310 months ago

    My childhood is starting to leave me.

  • @kuneho
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    310 months ago

    I have hope in Pretendo