They will just have to stick to advertised timelines, and allow people to use that software, as they please, after they stop supporting it. I do not see how this is unfair.
Jiggle_Physics
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I mean they started shutting it down 9 years ago, it isn't new, so it isn't really news now
Point was, this is about making it so they don't have the option to do this anymore, with the legal system.
They did, but that was 9 years ago, so you might not remember. However it was not as popular a movement yet, so they didn't get the same backlash as people are getting almost 10 years later, when everyone is sick of this. You are right, they can pull their own product if they want to, now. The goal is to make it so they can't just do that if they want to, anymore.
This is clearly some sort of native american origin horror
Everything needed to run the game online exists player side. There are many games where people run their own servers because of this, even in WoW. They are literally taking things to disable this ability from what they purchased.
Yeah, if they want to claim digital piracy is theft, then them doing this stuff is just as they described
OP's dad is wolverine
Yes
I mean programming in methods of anti-perving the camera view have been common in games for decades now.
Hermes the giant killer?
While David Brevik did move to GGG, he is not a dev there. He is an "advisor" and was originally hired to oversee their product exportation to China. Now GGG founded their company making games on the D2 engine, and were big fans of it, but I am pretty sure Brevik is the only D2 team member that went over, and he isn't a dev there, at least not fully.
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Ahh the days when I would have two, maybe three, IBM clones on my desk, HAL 9000esque eye on the wall, and a tablet pc, surrounded by hundreds of books.