Yarr citizens of the high seas! The Stop Killing Games movement is still ongoing and we’ve recently had a second wind. It’s within reach!
We’re all lovers of media in here, and games currently have no safeguard that guarantees that they won’t be locked down long after being released and abandoned. If crackers help us, they can still be played long into the future, but many times there isn’t such a possibility, specially in multiplayer games.
This initiative seeks to change that by mainly:
- Disallowing planned obsolesce in paid video games. (Ex: By disallowing phone-home based DRM after the game reaches end of life. Like in Ubisoft’s The Crew)
- Ensuring that paid multiplayer games can still be reasonably played long into the future. (Ex: By releasing relevant server hosting software)
If you didn’t sign yet, there is only one month left. Tell your friends too.
Do you live in the EU?
- You can sign it here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
Do you live in the UK?
- You can also sign a different one here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/
Do you live elsewhere or would like to know more?
Disclaimer: Reminder post, sort of relevant since piracy movements have much to benefit from this initiative.
Have a fine day!
Let’s say you’re company x budgeting y millions to make a game, after this passes, you may want to account for the fact that the EU may legislate the issue in the years it takes you to develop your game. Might as well work on compliance in advance.
Yeah, wishful thinking, I know.
That only works if the EU signals that they are taking this into serious consideration, which I don’t really think they will, but I want to be very clear that I don’t think the effort is therefore fruitless. I just hope people understand that this petition doesn’t even count as a start lol. We have to build off of this or it just fizzles out.
At this point the petition works best as an organizing force if you ask me. Gets people informed and hopefully involved
I will be so pissed if this gets 1 million signatures and they just hand-wave it away, which is entirely possible, but it’s still worth signing this anyway.
That is by far and away the most likely outcome but still, people should sign it and follow the initiative as it moves forward with other plans