this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
268 points (94.7% liked)

Stop Killing Games

132 readers
27 users here now

[EU] Stop Killing Games:

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

Petition

SKG Website

Discord

Milestones:

(41.40%) Petition

7/7 Countries reached.

Statistics

Current: 2,650 signatures weekly

Target: 23,440 signatures weekly

Safe Target: 31,440 signatures weekly

Goals:

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

175 days / 25 weeks / 6 months left.

Final Day: 31/7/2025.

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They may still be using code that’s in their dedicated servers

don't? Also to be clear, if that's a huge problem, you could also just BSD the code, and call it a day, you would need to publicly release most of the new code based on it, but that's not going to ruin you as a company, especially if people can fix bugs in it for freesies.

Or just open source the next server component that you need. That's the simple solution.