Comment by Schiendelman
5 hours ago
Practically speaking, I think the best way to do something like this is to enforce an auction when a studio shuts down an online game. That way the people that care get to vote with their dollars, rather than costing the studio.
Doesn't seem fair to the people who have already paid for a product that will stop working.
I'm not sure I get this. A game costs about the same as watching a few movies - the cost per hour of entertainment is vanishingly low. For these long running games, the cost per hour of entertainment is down to pennies for these users. The same users who are still playing years later are also the ones who have gotten the most value for that same number of dollars already.
Do you genuinely believe that property rights diminish as the utility derived from property increases?
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