Stop Killing Games

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

The grassroots movement to legislate that games be left in a playable state after they're no longer supported by the developer.

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(40.03%) Petition at 400.3k.

7/7 Countries reached.

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(45.75%) of the signatures will be reached at this rate.

224 days / 32 weeks / 8 months left.

Final Day: 31/7/2025.

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

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[–] chonglibloodsport 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is clearly the best option. Sometimes they can’t, though, because they have deals with 3rd party companies for libraries they depend on and they don’t have permission to release.

Personally I’d prefer they just rip out all the 3rd party code and release whatever they have left, leaving it up to the community to fill in the gaps with open source alternatives.

I think what they really want is to shut down the game and release the sequel so that everyone is forced to upgrade. I hate that. If they do that then they should forfeit their copyright.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I love that I can still play Quake… 28 years later