> Yes, and it was an awful experience with a fraction of the playerbase. “awful experience”? That’s a very very surprising thing to read. My personal experience has been the exact opposite. I’ve personally experienced…
> I’ve worked in games where we could drop a server binary over the fence an that would be fine. I’ve also worked on games that have required a bunch of different standalone services just for core logic - running it…
> Pretending that not doing that is bad design would have a chilling effect on novel games. Well, the comment that you replied to said “Gaming companies did not need to insert themselves into the process in the first…
> The movement for free software traditionally draws a distinction between software and art. This means that only the software part of each game would need to be distributable, not the entire game. Personally, I’m a big…
I’m kind of confused. In your metaphor, what do the road tax, gas or mechanic represent?
> This is a very "american" definition of freedom, which is basically, just let me do what I want. Eh. I see what you’re saying about gun control, but the idea that “some restrictions can lead to actually more freedom,…
> Yes, and it was an awful experience with a fraction of the playerbase. “awful experience”? That’s a very very surprising thing to read. My personal experience has been the exact opposite. I’ve personally experienced…
> I’ve worked in games where we could drop a server binary over the fence an that would be fine. I’ve also worked on games that have required a bunch of different standalone services just for core logic - running it…
> Pretending that not doing that is bad design would have a chilling effect on novel games. Well, the comment that you replied to said “Gaming companies did not need to insert themselves into the process in the first…
> The movement for free software traditionally draws a distinction between software and art. This means that only the software part of each game would need to be distributable, not the entire game. Personally, I’m a big…
I’m kind of confused. In your metaphor, what do the road tax, gas or mechanic represent?
> This is a very "american" definition of freedom, which is basically, just let me do what I want. Eh. I see what you’re saying about gun control, but the idea that “some restrictions can lead to actually more freedom,…