When games that are live service, or rely heavily on servers get cut off, they should at the very least release the server code so others can continue hosting it.
Stop being afraid of open source and embrace it. Too many games will be lost to greed.
Duelyst is a wonderful recent example of how to do it right.
@gamingonlinux damn right, if your company deems it no longer wants to patch/support, hand it over, don't burn it to the ground !
@gamingonlinux I can think of many games, especially some games from my childhood, that would benefit extremely from this. Just Survive, if anyone remembers that game, is one.
Sadly I know copyright would get on the way though, which sucks.
@gamingonlinux just take all the source ports of DooM, Quake 1, 2 and 3 and rebase them on the Unreal engine 1.
Jokes aside we owe a lot to John Carmack.