Live-service devs should "make a private hosted version of your game" when projects are shut down

Velan Studios’ director of marketing, Josh Harrison, has one recommendation for studios looking to close down or “sunset” a live-service game: “make a private hosted version of your game”.

“If you take one thing away from this talk, this is it: Make a private hosted version of your game,” Harrison said at this year’s GDC (thanks, PC Gamer).

“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.”