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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from destroying 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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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, that’s not what stop killing games is about. What’s demanded is that the games remains in a playable state even if servers are shut down.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What about multiplayer games? The server side is always going to be a necessity for those games.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

So then release the server side data. Or unlock the game from the need of a server, or allow users to create their own servers.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 27 points 8 months ago

AFAIK the initiative calls for the publishers to release the software needed to host your own servers. If everyone can host their own servers(what is quite common for some games) Theres no need for the publisher to pay for their own servers.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Back in the old days you could host your own multiplayer server locally. Regardless of that, most multiplayer games have single player modes where you go against bots, which I'm sure will satisfy the "still playable" criteria.