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Stop Killing Games
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[EU] Stop Killing Games:
The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.
The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.
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EU Final Day: 31/7/2025.
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For anyone who is somehow confused as to why any gaming company would ever even attempt something like this, why they really love the idea of being able to evaporate something they've sold you...
Just as used cars compete with new cars... so do old games compete with new games.
Games just have the fun property of being primarily digital, as opposed to a physical thing.
Massive digital goods companies will thus always fight to make your digital property rights as insubstantial as possible, and will go out of their way to either destroy or totally control all means to play older games.
Their worst nightmare is a world where you can just buy or otherwise acquire an older, better game, and they can't convince anyone to buy their new flashy, buggy, hollow bs.
They will pull out every rhetorical and legal strategy they possibly can, gaslight in everyway they can, to prevent that reality.
The corporation cares only for the profit of its shareholders, literally, legally.
Everything else is simply a tactic for achieving that.
Really, keeping and loving your old favorites is stealing from every single company selling new games, if you look at it in terms of lost sales.
"Ownership is theft!" -ubisoft