• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    But that’s exactly what you did with COD and user servers.

    Honestly, at this point it just sounds like you’re shilling for the publishers. You cannot accept the fact that user owned servers were not taken away for the benefit of the players, but for the benefit of the business.

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      10 months ago

      “everyone who disagrees with me is shilling” is not a reasonable thing to say.

      I get that you’re frustrated by reading things you don’t like, but that argument above is the mentality of a child, which you presumably are not, given our discussion.

      Minecraft is making shitloads of money. It’s not a purely business decision. That’s absurd.

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        10 months ago

        Way to build a scarecrow argument.

        I’m not saying you’re a shill because you disagree with me, I’m saying you’re a shill because you’re repeating the same excuses game publishers make when they take away features in a profiteering manner. It’s like Capcom claiming that mods will confuse players and cause “reputational damage” and offence to “public order and morals”. It’s pure bullshit.

        Why are you bringing up Minecraft? That game has always had user servers.

        I challenge you to explain, with recent examples, how user servers are objectively worse than official ones.

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          10 months ago

          Why are you bringing up Minecraft? That game has always had user servers.

          Because it is the most popular game using user servers, and also makes a lot of money, punching holes in your claim that centralized server hosting is entirely profit-driven.

          I’m saying you’re a shill because you’re repeating the same excuses game publishers make when they take away features in a profiteering manner

          Consider the possibility that I agree with them.

          I challenge you to explain, with recent examples, how user servers are objectively worse than official ones

          This has never been a thing I’ve said. Again, we are discussing history.

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            10 months ago

            Minecraft doesn’t only have centralised servers, it also has user servers. It’s a poor example.

            We’re not talking about history, we’re talking about user servers. You said user servers were taken away because they were crap in the 90s, I pointed out they were incredibly popular in the 00s - before they were taken away.

            Your statement is wrong. Your telling of history is wrong, you’ve mixed up your dates.

            Edit: Apologues for all the double posts, I keep getting timeout errors. I thought it was just my poor signal, but apparently it isn’t that as ym signal is fine now. Yay v0.19 lemmy!

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              10 months ago

              Minecraft doesn’t only have centralised servers, it also has user servers. It’s a poor example.

              This is why I brought Minecraft up lol

              I don’t think you’re following this discussion so let’s just let it go.

              No worries on the double posts. Happens to me all the time too.