A Mouse@midwest.socialtoGaming@lemmy.ml•'Make a private hosted version of your game': Knockout City dev's top tip for studios shutting down a live service game is to give players the keysEnglish
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6 months agoIsn’t that what they did? https://www.knockoutcity.com/private-server-edition#section-download
From the article:
There’s one thing, however, that Harrison recommends studios do above all others when sunsetting a live service game: let players keep playing the game on their own servers. Before shutting down Knockout City, Velan released the game as a standalone Windows executable with private server support. It’s still available to download.
It has been released as exactly that: https://www.knockoutcity.com/private-server-edition#section-download