Stop Killing Games

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

The grassroots movement to prevent game publishers from disabling older games with kill switches after official support ends.

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(41.40%) Petition

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Current: 2,650 signatures weekly

Target: 23,440 signatures weekly

Safe Target: 31,440 signatures weekly

(48%) of the signatures will be reached at this rate.

175 days / 25 weeks / 6 months left.

Final Day: 31/7/2025.

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Some people just defend the status quo. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

It's also subtly re-enforcing capital's position games need to operate on a centralised server model. I look back at many old multiplayer games where all I need to play with my friends is a local network. These days we get sold single player games that can't run under those conditions.

They aren't scared of being made to run servers forever. Quite the opposite, they are scared of us not needing them to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Doesn't even have to be local.

Still plenty of Enemy Territory servers going around. No need to set up a VPN or anything to play with your friends.

[–] Resonosity 2 points 2 months ago

Why else would you want to play their new games if they can't force restricted access on your old games.

For real though, I miss games that could sync up multiplayer over LAN.