What happens when Jackbox.tv shuts down?

[Pacemaker]

I love the Jackbox games, but it sucks that the games are online-only (especially on Switch)
All the games and Party Packs will become unplayable when Jackbox.tv gets shut down.
If for whatever reason Jackbox Games were unable to maintain jackbox.tv, I hope they find a way to hand over the website to the community. I'd happily chip in money for server and domain upkeep.

Thoughts?

[SoupCan]

+1 upvote

[Joonibean]

If Jackbox is shutting down then why are they still selling it? I wouldn't have just bought it if I knew

[Pacemaker]

Originally posted by xxfangirlxx7:

If Jackbox is shutting down then why are they still selling it? I wouldn't have just bought it if I knew

Don't worry it's not shutting down any time soon. Eventually they will stop supporting it, but that won't be for years after they release their final Jackbox game.

[Joonibean]

Oh ok good. I got worried for a second XD

[InstableMonster]

just like when mmo closes and when multiplayer servers shut down, it wont work

[Jackbox Games]

If the worst was to happen, we'd do our best to find a solution that would allow the games to continue to work, so don't worry!

[Pacemaker]

Originally posted by Jackbox Games:

If the worst was to happen, we'd do our best to find a solution that would allow the games to continue to work, so don't worry!

Thank you!

[yoda gaming]

This is a ridiculously stupid question, no offense. If they somehow couldn't host a website, they would let millions of copies of the game just no longer work?

Occam's razor, man. They would find a work around. Like an app, or letting players host their own "servers".

[HyperBallistic]

McNutty, it's happened before, It'll happen again. Although a lot of times when it happens the code is used in more than one game, so the owner doesn't want to share it to let ppl host (that happened with StarWarsGalaxies I think)