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Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.

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Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refunds (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 3 months ago by QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social to c/skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/gaming@beehaw.org/t/3751309

The Stop Killing Games campaign have revealed their support for a Californian bill related to game server shoutdowns.

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[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

From the Stop Killing Games discourse, that might not be feasible because of patents/licensing, work required and companies' protectiveness... But a suggestion I remember was that the companies could just be required to release all of the proprietary server binaries, so that somebody dedicated to the cause can figure out how to spin up their own server. This means a company doesn't have to clean up their sources and ensure they are actually buildable, and can just dump what they were already running somewhere.