Hot take that shouldn't be hot:

A multiplayer game is not dead if you have enough people to play with. There could literally be 3 other people and that would be fine if you are having fun.

A singleplayer game cannot be considered dead. It's singleplayer. You only need yourself.

#games #gamedev

The only exception is singleplayer games that require "always online" functionality to work, so let's not do that whenever it can be avoided.

Also, try to allow peer to peer connection or even privately hosted servers whenever possible, so the game you made with blood, sweat and tears can live on after you shut down official servers.

@RawbinHutt I disagree. Games shouldn't require "always online" functionality. There's only 1 game I can think of in recent times that justifies always online singleplayer and that's Microsoft Flight Simulator. Otherwise this excuse has only ever been used to make games shit.

@ThunderComplex my point is: the only exception to the point that "singleplayer games cannot be dead" is if they have always online. Which, as you say, is almost never needed.

@RawbinHutt ok yeah, but that's a different kind of dead. It's dead as in no players versus dead as in the publisher takes it away from you.

@ThunderComplex Taken away by publisher, is the worst kind of dead, no doubt!