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This doesn't seem to mention online components. What's a "reasonably functional (playable) state" for a purely online game? It says publishers don't need to provide resources, but surely some form of resource (e.g. server code/compiled binary) is essential for such a game to be "playable," no?
I wish they would've clarified that. As it stands, I can see an argument for publishers just abandoning and disabling online components as "reasonable," yet so many games are defined by that online component.
Maybe they just wanted to keep it simple. Idk.
https://lemmy.world/comment/16545391
Here's my response in that thread, in case anyone is interested: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18090621
Yeah. I wasn't really sure if this was the answer or not, just that I had seen a potential conversation asking similar questions or along the same lines, and others seemed to have had a take on this.