PirateSoftware can get fucked. I'm glad this initiative is alive again.
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There's currently 40k more signatures than when this was posted yesterday. Ross' last video felt very gloomy, but the pace is picking up again. I'm hopeful. If this push keeps its momentum (likely dependant on some major streamers/news outlets picking up on it), it might just make it in time.
You Mediterranean motherfuckers need to step it up a bit
From today's video, I'm under the impression the country totals no longer matter and they just need to hit 1 million signatures.
Thank you Ross!
Not to be overly disillusioned (though I am), but does this petition accomplish anything that isn't merely performative?
In the USA it's performative, but in the EU it means they will actually need to talk about it.
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.
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.
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.
what on eventual law can do is force developers to plan ahead. you can absolutely force them to release code.
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