Stop Killing Games

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

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

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures so that the european parliament will respond to the petition that then leads to game ownership protections enacted for consumers.

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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 2 months 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 2 months ago

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