AFAIK the initiative calls for the publishers to release the software needed to host your own servers. If everyone can host their own servers(what is quite common for some games) Theres no need for the publisher to pay for their own servers.
Back in the old days you could host your own multiplayer server locally. Regardless of that, most multiplayer games have single player modes where you go against bots, which I’m sure will satisfy the “still playable” criteria.
No, that’s not what stop killing games is about. What’s demanded is that the games remains in a playable state even if servers are shut down.
What about multiplayer games? The server side is always going to be a necessity for those games.
So then release the server side data. Or unlock the game from the need of a server, or allow users to create their own servers.
AFAIK the initiative calls for the publishers to release the software needed to host your own servers. If everyone can host their own servers(what is quite common for some games) Theres no need for the publisher to pay for their own servers.
Back in the old days you could host your own multiplayer server locally. Regardless of that, most multiplayer games have single player modes where you go against bots, which I’m sure will satisfy the “still playable” criteria.