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)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They may still be using code that's in their dedicated servers, but I agree that an open source solution shows the most good faith.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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.