If the left genuinely wanted to combat fascism, then they would work to reduce the disparity in wealth.
The solutions are right in front of our faces, but we refuse to enact them because that would mean taking power away from our rulers and putting it back in the hands of workers.
The left is doing their part to make sure fascism succeeds, and we should hold them accountable for it if we want fascism to fail.
Right. It can and has been done before while still turning a profit. People can, did, and still do use self-hosting as a way to play things for free. It has never been the reason for why a game failed financially, though. Most people just don't have the knowledge or the interest to go through the extra steps required to play for free. A lot of them buy things because they genuinely wanted to support the developers.
The abuse is the point. The people in charge spend every day figuring out more ways to take power away from people and give it to the corporation. It's an art and a science at this point.
Money and control. There is no technical reason, and in fact it would be easier to just let people host their own servers.
Allowing self-hosting used to be the norm for online games. Businesses realized a long time ago that gamers stopped having standards and would accept any abuse to not be left out of the hype.
The left isn't doing enough to address the cost of living crisis so people vote for the opposition even if it's worse.
I blame the left, always, because they should and do know better. They choose to be greedy, entitled pieces of shit that focus on anything but reducing the disparity in wealth.
They would rather have fascism than communism, so that's what they get every time.
Every once in awhile, someone on the far right will do what people on the left should've done a long time ago. A major reason for this is because right-wingers tend to have bigger balls than those on the left. Stop being pussies, y'all.
You can create your own server and disable signups whenever you want.