“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only”

So change your design? The corporate mind cannot comprehend this.

Why could you turn a battle royal game into a local only split screen game for 2-4 people?

Give players a copy of the server so they can host their own, or patch the game to allow direct connections like games used to have in the 90s and 00s?

That sounds like an online only title. I thought we were going to “change the design.”

What do you mean?

Changing the design happens during the pre-production. This will not effect any games retroactively. As unfortunate as it is, until the EU parliament decides on a law or regulation all games destined to die will die.

I mean, taking a 100 person battle royal and changing it so dramatically would be quite odd to do.

I picked an extreme example for discussion reasons.

It’s possible to host your own Arma server that can handle 100 players. Ironically Arma has a Battle Royale mode. It’s not rocket science.