Donโ€™t let publishers destroy the games you bought with kill switches!

Please support the initiative of Stop Killing Games!

EU Petition.

UK Petition

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[+] -10 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Not to be overly disillusioned (though I am), but does this petition accomplish anything that isn't merely performative?

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not at all.

    You can't force anyone to carry on running servers after their business dies, and you can't force them to release code that might be licensed from somebody else.

    Realistically, the onus is on us, and all we can really do is refuse to buy or engage with games that use this model, and if we do then at least accept that one day it will be gone, no matter how much time and money we've tipped into it.

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 1 year ago

    You can't force anyone to carry on running servers after their business dies

    I am amazed at how powerful one video can be to blind people to the whole discussion.

    No, no one expects them to nor does it say so anywhere in the language of the petition.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 1 year ago*

    The EU can very much dictate how businesses do business in Europe. Consumer protection is one of their responsibilities.

    The initiative however says nothing about forcing anyone to run servers or to release code. If you think that, you missed the entire point. Games in the past used to work just fine after being abandoned without keeping servers online or releasing code.

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