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Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear'

2026-07-17 14:51 UTC

“Although Sweet Bandits had to close their doors, we don’t believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear because the services behind it aren’t sustainable forever,” the unsigned post reads. "We’re actively rebuilding Deceive Inc.’s backend to be sustainable indefinitely and support community-hosted dedicated servers. Good guy devs and count me in for self-hosting a dedicated server.

Replies (2)

  • @ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 15:05

    They also could have just done that from the start. Look, this is good news, but the reason you design your servers like that in the first place is because you have the hubris to think you’re going to make Fortnite money. Hopefully their next project isn’t built with the same naivety.

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  • @anarchy79@lemmy.world 2026-07-18 08:24

    Un-live?

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