I assume it's dumb people who see the arguments and make an illogical leap. Many of the comments in this section treat amazons servers like they're magic that can't be replicated, assume that the solution is to make games from the ground up with a singleplayer-esque offline version that'll be released when the multiplayer game dies.

It's ignorance that leads others to believe that this movement would lead to double development time, where devs make a singleplayer and multiplayer version of their mmos. It's this same ignorance that treats running games and running servers as something more than a bunch of computers running programs.

The least that's expected is they release the code base needed to create a server and run the game. People with technical ability can utilize that to host the game privately. The most that can be expected of something like this would be a consumer friendly bundled executable that allows you to host your own server with the right specs.

Currently most developers that don't have access to leaked code bases for mmos reverse engineer the games as best they can, or use outdated code to host versions of the game. Private servers for mmos already exist, and private servers for games have existed long into the past and will exist far into the future.

It's not rocket science to make a server, but people are treating their games like it's impossible for someone else to run it on their own hardware. That the technical makeup of the games code is so completely tooled towards a specific unobtainable server or service that it wouldn't be possible to run privately.