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Then give buyers the ability to make their own servers.

Critics are noting that Ubisoft did this to prevent exactly that.

The point was "don't take away users' ability to run their own servers"

So said EA when they launched that Sim City... ;)

TBH if you give money to the likes of Ubisoft and EA you deserve your fate. I've stopped ages ago*.

* I don't even pirate their games. I have a backlog of legit bought games that will probably last me more than my natural life time.

It absolutely could. It just doesn't. For reasons.