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[afullo]

Indeed, often when they want you to buy their new game. I just read rapidly the article, I will deepen it later, but I agree with the idea that you don't buy a game anymore, but only the right to play it under the conditions of the rightholders, and the same is true also for music and other media.

[Cas]

I agree... absolutely!  The problem is not the internet itself, but how a few companies have hoarded it and control it even though it's supposed to be decentralised and free. Paying for a game was OK, but paying for limited rights on the copy bought, not so much. Now, having to play to be able to use it is really awful... It's like playing for cable TV compared to paying for a TV in the 80s: you no longer pay once and have the whole thing. You've bought it, but still have to pay regularly and are tied to what they choose to do with it.

Also, official game servers depend on the popularity of the game at the time. If you can open your own server, even if it's just LAN, you can always do multiplayer. You just have to gather a few friends who want to play. That's the healthiest way of doing the thing. Open adaptations of classic games often allow this and that's great. Besides Doom, you can count Descent I and II. I don't remember the name of the free port. Of course, it requires the original data files, but you can freely play the game. Duke3D also has eDuke.

[afullo]

Also, official game servers depend on the popularity of the game at the time.

Sometimes they deactivate servers just in order to "convince" gamers to buy the next installment of the game studio. 

[Daniel3D]

I've a stunts copy where I i can mess with files en settings.
I made a slight alteration in the main menu background (so i can see if i started the right one)
but i kinda like it. so i thought i share it with you.

[GTAManRCR]

It looks great

[Daniel3D]

Had some fun today with opponent files.

I fired Skid and hired someone new.
Also I tossed away my clipboard and picked up an Ipad.

after a bit of repositioning of the clip (can't delete it, that will break the game, but hiding works)
and lowering the opponent pictures to 13 pix

not really lore friendly. but fun in my testing copy of the game.

[Cas]

Ha, ha!  Oh, in the end, I had said I'd take a look at opponent files and I haven't. I've been concentrating on R4K and its code. Even the 3D engine is kind of stopped (although that one is near completion).

[GTAManRCR]

Even multiplayer became less user-driven: with old games you were usually able to create a server, or join one, which was not under the direct control of any company. Now, several games allows the player only to connect to an official server, removing the chance of personalizing the gameplay.

And then the official and single server is turned off, and goodbye game.

For an interesting take on the issue: https://locusmag.com/2019/09/cory-doctorow-drm-broke-its-promise/

Need for Speed: World is such a game like this, except you install the offline mod for it

[GTAManRCR]

Let's race instead of Let's drive 

After making a mod like this, make sure to save as .VSH in order to avoid errors

[CTG]

Joe Stallin

[GTAManRCR]

The actual one. Why didn't DSI use this?

[Cas]

Ha, ha!  I had gotten so accustomed to the name in Stunts that I had never related him to the dictator 

[CTG]

Not a picture, not funny at all: how to destroy LM002.

https://youtu.be/TOxa6fsuiM0

[alanrotoi]

Americans...

[dreadnaut]

I'm a bit confused by the "we want to test what a small improvised bomb does to a car" and then they fill it with high-grade explosive.

Mmmh, it should almost count as "war crime" to destroy an LM002