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Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!
There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.
The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.
The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.
@Beckydog @MOULE There's a petition in the UK too!
Here's the link:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/
If you need more information you can check the website for the initiative ( https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ ) or write me back, I'm not direclty affiliated with the campaign but I'm trying to help reaching the goal :)
The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.
@xsevy the problem is that many games with physical copy require checking a server. If the publisher shuts down the server without patching the game in other ways, you're physical copy is useless.
"The Crew" servers shutdown by Ubisoft is the case from which the campaign started, it had both physical and digital distribution. It currently can't be played in any way or platform.
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@xsevy I personally I own a bunch of games in DVD from the "Game from Windows Live" era (2007-2015 circa, the more notable I own are GTA IV, BioShock and an Assassins Creed) which can't even be installed on PC because the server are offline and they get stuck verifying the code.
The only way I have to play my DVDs of those games is sailing the seas or buying them again on a online store (if they're still sold somewhere in their original version)
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Why is this only Games-Specific? This happens to a lot of current software. Even the ones, thats NOT "in the cloud" is checking its valid license over the internet nowadays and so prone to be broken when the vendor decides or goes bankrupt ...
@jwalzer
The initiative is focused on videogames because there are legal precedents that explicity separate videogames from other software (why? Unfortunately I can't wrap my head around it). That could mean that if the initiative was about all software, videogames could be excluded again.
Another reason was that keeping the initiative focused on videogames would help making easier to spread the word with the help of gamers and gaming communities. (the campaign has no founds)
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Personally (having to deal with companies like Adobe and Autodesk for my daily job) I really hope that a regulation on videogames could be extended to other software.
But that's my view. Please note I'm not among the representatives in Bruxelles for the initiative, I'm just volunteering to try to achieve the signature goal. So I speak for myself having just partial knowledge about the start of the campaign and influence on the campaign.
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@jwalzer
We have to keep in mind that in case we reach 1M signatures the EU commision will have to research the subject and offer a response.
If they think a regulation should involve all software they can do it. The ECI is supposed to raise an issue that's dear to the citizens to the EU commission, for the better or the worse how to respond will be up to them.
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@Serzedo there are games on CD (for PC) that required an internet connection for DRM. Now that the servers are no longer online you can't install them anymore (unless you buy them in digital form again if they're still sold). I know of games from 2k, Rockstar and those that used "Games for Windows Live" DRM system, but there are probably others I don't know of.
Those won't be affected by a possible future regulation, but the goal is to prevent this from happening again in the future.
@Serzedo I get the "voting with your wallet" part, but it's difficult to do it when the entire industry is moving in one direction. Full offline DRM free games are almost never an option (and they haven't for a while)
The only way I see that has a remote change of success in inverting the trend on "owning nothing" is regulation.
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