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During the latest Game Developers Conference, Josh Harrison, Velan Studios' Director of Marketing, shared some tips for those developers who have been thinking about shutting down their live-service games, as we all perfectly know, the latter can't last forever.
"If you take one thing away from this talk, this is it: Make a private hosted version of your game," shared Harrison (via PC Gamer). "It is the single biggest thing that we did to impact the positive reception of the sunset. It got great press, got great reactions from players, and ultimately, it keeps the game that everybody at the studio worked so hard on alive forever, even with the live servers offline."
Based on the studio's experience, providing a standalone version of their closed live-service game, Knockout City, had a positive impact on its reception. This decision not only received praise from both the press and the community but also ensured that the game, which was a result of everyone's hard work, remained accessible indefinitely.
"There are small but mighty communities that are still going, built around this private server months after shutdown by playing games daily, hosting their own tournaments where they're raising their own prize pools, and more," Harrison added to the mentioned above. "One community member even built a launcher that makes it easier to get into private servers as well as see a private server list of active player counts."
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