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70% of games that require internet get destroyed (www.youtube.com)
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[–] creamlike504@jlai.lu 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

...Dead games, which means no one on Earth can currently play the game. It's not possible...

...At-risk games, which means these games are currently working, but they're designed in such a way that the second the publisher ends support, they will become dead games without some sort of intervention...

...Dev Preserved, which means the game would have died, but the publisher or developer implemented some sort of endof life plan, so now the game is safe...

...Fan Preserved, where the publisher did nothing or practically nothing to save the game, but fans managed to either hack it to remove dependencies or reverse engineer a server emulator so that the game was saved in spite of the publisher actions.