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Stop Killing Games Canadian Petition - Now Open For Signature (www.ourcommons.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/441893

Stop Killing Games Canadian Petition - Now Open For Signature

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20896275

Stop Killing Games Canadian Petition - Now Open For Signature

Petition E-4965 is the one that is posted to stopkillinggames.com, Ross Scott (Accursed Farms)'s campaign to end the practice of bricking games people have purchased, whenever the publisher doesn't want to support it anymore.

It is open for signing by Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents, until September 5th 2024.

Please spread the word to your Canadian friends and family who take interest in games, and please add your name to it to support this campaign to help preserve games in some form in perpetuity.

Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I imagine it being basically impossible for MMORPG games. How do you keep an MMORPG alive without removing the MMO part?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are player-run servers for MMORPGs such as Ultima Online and EverQuest. If the developers released the server software the fans wouldn’t have to implement their own (which they did for those two games). If the company is no longer running their own servers they are no longer making money from subscriptions so they won’t lose money to competition from player-run servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

fans wouldn’t have to implement their own (which they did for those two games)

Wow, TIL. People are amazing.