Yes and you don’t even have to worry about free servers competing with you, because you don’t have to release them until the day you shut down your live servers.
Not that I’d complain about reverse engineering being made legal. I’m still salty about ATLUS essentially killing COMP_HACK. It wasn’t hurting them since they themselves killed the MMO years ago.
There’s no reverse engineering required… You just release the server executables…
Yes and you don’t even have to worry about free servers competing with you, because you don’t have to release them until the day you shut down your live servers.
Or at least the protocols.
I think in some cases the content could be partially server side and only transient in the client…
Not that I’d complain about reverse engineering being made legal. I’m still salty about ATLUS essentially killing COMP_HACK. It wasn’t hurting them since they themselves killed the MMO years ago.