EPTOn October 11 2023 02:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
it is still not "in the hands of the community". When the corp shuts down servers the game ends. When the community owns the servers and/or when there are private servers the game has the potential to live forever.
it is still not "in the hands of the community". When the corp shuts down servers the game ends. When the community owns the servers and/or when there are private servers the game has the potential to live forever.
You're conflating community members doing things for the community and that community potentially lasting forever. The two are not the same thing. Even if you don't accept whoever worked on the patch, mapmakers are fairly clearly working on maps for free. At best they get a very small prize from TL mapmaking contests, but it's (1) a pittance compared to the work it takes and (2) far from guaranteed your map will win you money even if it does actually end up in the map pool.
