Those are what Steam and Battle.net are in this context, the connection server, which is different from the game server which was meant by “let the users run the servers”.

This is what I meant by “moved away from”

Ok, that was really unclear from your OP, hence my question. Thanks for clearing that up.

With the exception of Minecraft, they all do less business than games with a centralized server.

“If you ignore this falsifying date my hypothesis holds” seems like a weird way of arguing, but ok. Minecraft is indeed a popular multiplayer game with user run servers.

Idk why people are so desperate to find supervillains everywhere

I’m not, I just wasn’t clear on whether you were talking about connection servers or game servers, and was ready to break a lance for the latter.