https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071
HATE NOT OWNING YOUR VIDEO GAMES? HATE WOKE AND ANTI-CONSUMER VIDEO GAME COMPANIES? SPREAD THE WORD TO BRITBONGS
>Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state
>Require publishers to leave videogames (and related game assets / features) they have sold to customers in a reasonably working state when support ends, so that no further intervention whatsoever is necessary for the game to function, as a statutory consumer right.
>Many videogames rely on servers. When these are shut down, games can be left unplayable where no action is taken to remove this dependency. We believe this is effectively robbing customers, leaving them with no recourse to retain their purchases. We have concerns that existing laws and agencies do not effectively solve this problem. Thus we believe government intervention is needed to stop this practice.
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https://stopkillinggames.com/faq
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This will just mean that games well be developed as p2p slop.
No way they'll facilitate community servers.
Better a game you can still play at any time without getting fricked over by a corporation.
Sounds like a lot of headache and overhead for a company to manage as opposed to...just releasing offline games.
I actually did, lol. I'll give it another try tomorrow at better hours. Gamers stay up all night though, yeah?
>This will just mean that games well be developed as p2p slop.
>No way they'll facilitate community servers.
isnt p2p more work than just hosting a server like in the old days?
>isnt p2p more work than just hosting a server like in the old days?
I don't expect any of these companies to give any power or say over the games that gets puplished. As the industry has grown, it has become less user friendly, not more.
>No way they'll facilitate community servers.
It's not like they're demanding they personally fund 1st party server support in perpetuity. They don't need to do shit beyond releasing tools to let people create their own servers and a browser to find them, or the capability of launching listen servers once the game reaches EOL.
It just needs to be in a playable state anon.
What happens if a company folds and the servers are located in another country? This just means companies will create shell corporations for every release, then declare bankruptcy when they want to pull the plug.
By all means though, it'd be funny to see this fail if it passed.
you know you used to be able to just fricking host your own game servers. not even that long ago.
what is wrong with you morons that think hosting a game requires whatever magic computers EA has that they just can't make their games work without?
I don't play modern games but I know they are all hooked up to some mother teat that the game company can just turn off one day.
>American doesn't understand how the commons work
>American posts at 23:40 when all the normalgays are in beddy bed
lmao
shoulda dropped a link in britpol, might have gotten through to a circlejerker at least
Not signing because no good game relies on servers. The only good games are single player so all the data is just on your computer.
I don't play online-only slop either, but this would essentially make it so that companies would be heavily disincentivized from making online-only slop, meaning more single player, offline games.
If nothing else, this petition would absolutely frick over any companies that DO use the practice, like Ubisoft or EA.
Oh yeah that's a good point.
I have a few old single player game CDs that I can't install on my current PC because the POS security validation server doesn't exist anymore. If you have single player steam games your entire library will die if it can't connect. Offline mode only works for a few weeks before steam blocks you until you connect online again. Only a few old games have working exe launchers you can use offline.
valve has already stated that if there's an existential crisis to the company that everything will be unlocked and redistributed for offline access
And you'll get your 40% gold from fort knox when the economy goes down
I guess we'll find out
Oooh nice.
You're better off getting the EU to force it through.
True, but to emphasize, the Stop Killing Games campaign is literally trying to do that in every country possible. This UK petition is only a part of it. If one country legislates against the practice, it could have an effect where it propagates to multiple countries, or even globally, so it's best to fire off on all cylinders.
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/countries
There's a Citizen's Initiative for the EU pending, at the moment.
Finally gamers are infiltrating parliament
finaly a sane law! there are plenty of games I bought a decade ago on steam that now will not work on my modern PC
you could send petitions to actually try to improve your country and you homosexuals do this
brits deserve to be raped by pakis
>stopping all mass immigration and repairing nations' original demographics
an utter and radical impossibility
>solve one actionable, clear-cut well-spoken issue in one industry in a hobby you enjoy
more likely
The freemans mind guy is gonna run out of funds doing this I hope he realizes the end run of what he is getting at
I wish game companies were held liable to dig up the files, ofc they have them, so people can spool their own community databases for live service games that are dead, but these companies are run by stacies and their pussywhipped chad bald board moron who dont play games or understand their significance
Why are you over the age of 18 and playing video games?
Because they took my foreskin and my girl from me
You can't take both, now I will just live in minecraft forever
I guess this would be hard to understand when the only thing you know is poverty, gay sex in the barracks, and binge drinking.
No, they should instead release the server application and API so that the community can run and maintain servers for players.
You might want to reread the petition and what the campaign is going for.
This is the most moronic petition I have ever seen
Hi there would you like to sign my petition?
This is the Freeman's mind guy running out of content's maneuver
It's kinda sad cause I was thinking about doing it too
Will repost about this tomorrow at prime bong hours
Approval bump
This shit is like 20 years old at this point, maybe more
>That meme
The ancients have returned.
>petition
Literally nothing will come of this.
>captcha: GOON W
Or maybe stop playing video games as an adult.
>Government regulating game compatibility
Result: Microsoft splits into a hundred different versions of Direct_X and Window_Message_Processor(). Now you give Microsoft the ability to racketeer and shut down their competition, if they cant keep up.
Result: Saboteur Poos are hired to sabotage Linux Xorg.
Result: Now only Blackrock can make games, and they will all reflect the israeli television monopoly to brainwash the goy.
bump because these petitions are time-limited.
my friend even if this passes expect them to dickwragle it out of the hall. but I reserve hope.
This petition will be up for six months, so there's not a rush. Feel free to make threads about it or share it wherever to keep eyes on it.
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AMERICANS: Look at the types of regulations coming out of the UK.
For all it's faults, the UK has a functioning government; these are initiatives clearly emerging from the populace, to suit the population's will.
Compare to all the things that never happen in the US.
I wish we had a functioning government
this started to become a big problem with the burning crusade in 2007. i've been complaining about it for 15 years and no one ever listened
Or at least release the server code with detailed instructions and let a few of the devs continue to contribute to it in the abundant spare time.
They should at least not sue people for keeping their games alive after they decide to abandon it completely
Not my problem. Multiplayer Black folk get what they FRICKING DESERVE. All of my singleplayer games have been kept in a working state by based russians and chinks.
Nothing wrong with this. All games should have a backup function to allow for players to act as host and make their own servers. Problem solved.
It's called piracy.
Piracy only exist so normies consume predictive programming media they otherwise would not have. A pirated game is still free advertising for the most part.
Hypocrite c**t
Stop playing games then.
Just telling you why piracy exist. You can be salty about it all you want. A number of studies have shown piracy to be a net positive. I will consume all the messaging. It's a good outlay for what globohomosexual has planned for the years to come.
this reminds me of Little Big Planet. such a fricking tragedy man
I watched the "games as a service is fraud" video. it all sounds fine but there's something off about how he frames it. "it just takes a bit of work before the game dies" but anyone can say that they will support their game indefinitely. it's not much of a solution.
If it's shutdown, the publisher/developer must offer a means for the community to continue service, no matter how they twist their words about the length of their game's service. If they do actually run it indefinitely, great, no issues, but if it's shutdown at any point, there needs to be some leeway for continued use.
what I mean is: it's a very low standard and it's not verifiable. better to demand a change about it upfront.
Good. Frick the game industry trying to say I’m leasing their titles just so they can resell it to me over and over again. I paid for a software code. That software should function indefinitely. It doesn’t matter if it’s got issues and bugs after the fact. As long as it’s been released in a working state and works as intended on launch. People will find glitches and exploits and run into bugs on all games. The game needs to be playable period. It needs to be inheritable as well. My son should be able to have access to my game library in the event of my death. Anything less than this is fraud and those profiting off of it need to be punished in criminal and civil courts.