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It's finally up! Please sign it if you're in the UK :) Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state. (petition.parliament.uk)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (12 children)

No, it's unreasonable to expect the servers to stay online forever. Instead, they should be required to hand the keys over to the community if they stop providing the online service.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or simply release a patch that disabled only the online portion.

coughTheCrewcough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I never play games that are pure online with no LAN support.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cool, that's great, but that's also kinda the point.

Live service games suck because you can't depend on being able to play them. This is trying to fix that. So you (or anyone else) can play these games offline—eventually. Once they shut down the servers, customers should still be able to access their purchases. This campaign is trying to force companies to design around releasing a patch to strip out the online portion/online DRM or face significant financial consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Moreso, I like to be able to have control of the game. If I play a game with my friends that I like, I don't want the game to be changed into something else (live service) so I can't come back and play the version we once did.

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