Multiversus ends updates, will close servers on May 30 (but will remain playable in Singleplayer)

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

It's the way Multiversus went, and it's the way 2XKO will likely go. You need to put your thumbs on certain scales to make the math work out for free to play.

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

free to play

other options like offering the game at a decent price...

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

It's not that it's hard. It's that they see it as interfering with their business model. Not only would that remove the likelihood of you seeing other people's new skins, it also removes a dependence on them, where they can create forced independence. Plus I suspect that they fear more piracy.

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

2XKO is already announced as free to play.

[emb@lemmy.world]

Right, I don't even know how you would cheat it. Down at this point, I guess I'm just lamenting that more games aren't able to keep healthy communities after dev support ends.

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

At that point, you go to Discord, either with friends or the game's community. It's pretty much mathematically impossible to sustain the kinds of populations you find at a game's launch.

[mudman@fedia.io]

It wouldn't be, necessarily. A bunch of games (survival games, in particular) still give you that choice. It's cheap, reliable and doesn't need a ton of people playing your game.

The problem is then you can't do matchmaking, you need a server browser, which is a lot clunkier. And it does get harder to avoid cheating and so on. The experience is also dependent on how close the server is from you, and if it's just some guy's computer the server goes away when they're not playing.

For fighting games specifically, where "room matches" are still a thing in most games, I do see it becoming an option as a separate mode. And man, if you're doing something like Multiversus I do think you should consider having it ready to go as a fallback, because this is a bad look and hurts future games that may want to give this a shot.

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

I'm talking about possible ways of monetizing these types of games, not 2XKO specifically.

[superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Has that improved at all? Last I tried items were disabled and it was match after match of Falco doing the same move over and over.

[mr_madafaka@lemmy.ml]

This game already died 2 times

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

They had already chosen free to play, and I was speaking of the options available to them given that choice.

[gullible@sh.itjust.works]

Gotta find a person that you like to match up against or you’ll find sweaty melee elitists. Try an online melee group if you don’t know anyone, or maybe you could try making a Lemmy community. Most play without items so items are completely disabled by default. Not a long process to change that, though. Just don’t use this information for evil, only against friends.

[takumidesh@lemmy.world]

You can do both dedicated servers and official matchmaking servers. It's what counter strike does as an example.

That way if the official servers go offline, you only lose the matchmaking, but the game isn't totally dead.