Stop Killing Games

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

The grassroots movement to regulate that games be left in a playable state after publisher support ceases.

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(40.51%) Petition

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Current: 1,314 signatures weekly

Target: 21,245 signatures weekly

Safe Target: 28,388 signatures weekly

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(44.19%) of the signatures will be reached at this rate.

196 days / 28 weeks / 7 months left.

Final Day: 31/7/2025.

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

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.