[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.
Progress Tracker:
Final Day: 31/7/2025.
Yuzu and the like were likely targetted because these things will more than likely (with very little modification) be able to play ripped games. The 'key-cards' are their effort to reduce the footprint for people to rip the games directly off of the cart.
It will only slow us down by a few months at most before someone jailbreaks it, and we can take our stuff and move it to the SteamDeck.
Nintendo stole the games from my Switch when the monthly extortion tax was not paid. Nothing they do is relevant to me any more. Anyone can steal from me once, that is on them; to let them do it again, would be entirely my fault.
Unfortunately, that's now the end goal of officially-supported console emulation: "We will only rent you old games, never sell indefinite licenses."
Deny that parasite profit and engagement
"Remember when you last bought a book, took it home, and found it was only a cover, with a slip of paper inside detailing where to download the missing pages?"
Someone's never bought a College textbook.
Though that's a good example of a legalised scam too.
Like I needed more reasons to never shop nintendo again. SteamDeck fully supplanted the switch and switch 2 is DOA for me.
The steam deck has soo much more innovation potential as the software is open-source and the hardware is pretty repairable for it's form factor.
That and the entire gamerdeck form factor that arrived along with it. I use a boutique Chinese deck (OneXPlayer, but I hear others are good too), and there's numerous Western options like the Ally, the Legion Go, and the Claw.
One thing that made me choose a Chinese device of all things was that the Legion Go S didn't exist at the time. Ergonomics are important for something like these and everything else was painful to use for extended periods. Still using the OXP device as my daily driver as I don't yet see reason to upgrade.