- You don’t own in-game assets – If a game shuts down or bans you, your items, skins, and currencies are gone.
Do I need skins and other items if the game shuts down? I think that if something happens with the game, I don't need their assets, so while it sounds to be a good deal, it's not a priority to my mind, it's a solution that doesn't bring many benefits.
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- Centralized control – Devs decide everything. A patch or update can devalue your in-game progress overnight.
Is that a bad thing? The game is owned by company and its developers, so they are the ones who make changes. I don't know if there exists any commercial open-source game.
You got me curious, so i did quick research and found these list.
https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-gameshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_gamesFrom quick glance, most of them are old or not popular. But these two seems to be fairly popular.
https://github.com/ppy/osu (447K active users on US according to their own statistic)
https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry (18K+ review on Steam distribution platform)[/list][/list][/list]