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Yes?.. It does not have to be pretty. If you're able to deploy it, your community will be able to deploy it.

If you really don't want to bother with that - don't sell the game, sell timed access and shut it down once the last subscription runs out.



Fair enough, but that's a huge imposition on everyone for what probably comes from a very specific instance in your life of a single game that you loved having its server die after a while, long after you got your money's worth.

It seems short sighted.


> It seems short sighted.

In my opinion it's the other way around. It's short sighted to throw away so much of the medium's history with no way to preserve it.


How is dumping your server files in a file upload server somewhere a "huge imposition"?


Nobody is even asking you to maintain the code. You had it working when I purchased the product that required the code. Just share that code. I'll even fiddle around with hard-coded paths or whatever you think is making this impossible




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