"Support for all games cannot last forever."
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Again and again and again... Sigh... Sadly I'm sure many of the comission will just believe that shit...
But then again, the big companies are obviously scared, that's a good sign at least.
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SKG isnt even asking for support to last forever. They have repeatedly been very clear about that.
I wrote a Python script that says “lol” last week.
50 years from now, it’ll still be runnable, and it’ll still say “lol”.
Unless I update it to say “Ubisoft sucks dick”.
If you don’t update it to say “Ubisoft sucks dick,” you don’t support games!
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Well yes. Publishers of physical books absolutely cannot not put a piece of explosive inside their physical book, whose only point os to burn the book obce said publisher claims it's impossible to not set off the explosive after 25 years of "support".
Neither games nor gamers don't need "support". What they need is to not actively be belittled, castrated and mutilated by publishers.
If this was done in the physical realm wirh equivalent tactics, there'd also be outrage.
That active modding and coding communities exist to keep older gamers working into the modern era is reason enough to show people just love games.
EU institutions are for the lobbyist, not for the people. We already knew that.
I wrote all my EU representatives in the parliaments about the chat control topic, and NONE of them answered. They are an elite above normal citizens, they do not care about us. They are aristocrats.
The commission is famously bad for this, but the EU also has the Parliament which is much less of a problem
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The SKG movement should become the Stop Buying Games movement if they don’t listen.
Gamers are less capable of self-control than heroin addicts. Trying to get them to stop buying games is a fools errand.
Looking at you sports and COD gamers 👀
I don't get those two kinds of gamers. You're paying over $100USD every year to continue to play fundamentally the SAME game. Just that ALL your progress and cosmetics/teams are essentially wiped and you have to spend hundreds of dollars to reacquire them. And they say some games are "too grindy."
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Boycotts don't work when John Gamer spends hundreds of millions on microtransactions. I could never buy another EA Sports game for the rest of my life, and all it takes is one whale to wipe out ten of me boycotting. The economy of boycotting games is completely broken at scale when whales exist, and companies know how to cater to them.
But if the whale does not have 10 other people to play with and show off their whaling, then they won't whale no more on that game.
You are the plankton accompanying the whale (wtf am I typing while shitting in the morning) even if you are not paying directly, you support the ecosystem. No other players to play with, then suddenly it's a boring game.
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I support skg but also I stopped buying (aaa) games a long time ago, and I can't be the only one. We're the people who have enough disposable income but simply won't support shit but beancounter managers are too stupid to realize it would be easy to get if they'd just show a little decency.
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Yeah. There was a statistic about Steam a while ago showing that the percentage of recent releases by playtime was steadily declining. People have their classics, they outgrow competitive games, they don't want to upgrade their PCs as much with current prices. This was masked for a time by overall steady growth in the gaming sector, but this is slowing down.
Or "Stop Renting Games" since we only get a digital license on most platforms that can be revoked.
EDIT: I need to watch the (looong) video linked below by MagnificentSteiner as this may be wrong.
This is not true. Don't spread this false "you don't own your games" narrative.
You buy a perpetual license for a copy of the game. It's called a license because you are not buying the actual game but a copy. It's exactly the same way other software works as well as music and other media.
The whole point of SKG is that we do own our games but publishers are trying to act otherwise.
Here, Ross who started SKG explains it better.
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No buy from gog and show that there is money in being consumer friendly
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Isn't the Commission a famously corrupt org? Nearly all popular measures from the EU came from the Parliament, iirc
Europe seems to be doing alright. Democracy is doing better there than anywhere else right now. There are much worse organizations and regimes, and we need more unity in the world, not less, right now.
I hear too many people taking the stability of the modern world entirely for granted. Do be you want the US to remain the hegemon? China? Russia? Who?
Democracy is doing better there than anywhere else right now.
Switzerland?
If I buy a physical board game, I can keep playing it as long as I still have the game in my possession. Video games should be no different.
Before the internet was widespread, that's exactly how they worked.
I mean, until their internal ram failed and you needed to do a full RPG in one sitting, but I guess that's true of board games losing pieces or breaking.
That is what archival copies and emulation exists to protect. In case your physical copy that you purchased becomes damaged and as a result is no longer usable, you still have the legal right to access the digital content you paid for. You have the legal right to make your own backup copies. You cannot distribute the copy, and are only entitled to one (at a time), and must destroy the copy if you sell or give away your physical copy. Basically the physical copy acts like a proof of purchase.
Nintendo does not know the law and asserts their own creative interpretation is correct, but the letter of the law is very clear.
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The commission should be afraid of siding with the corporations mainly for what we'll do to them if they do.
I'm still counting this as a very broad win.
The corruption is hilariously obvious now, they had no other choice.
They're afraid.
Them being afraid, the lying and bullshit being undeniably obvious to anyone with ~+90 IQ, and there now being actual substantial public awareness and concern, and real organizations dedicated to combatting this corruption?
Should have been that way a decade ago, but better late than never.
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To be a bit intentionally dramatic...
If ya'll don't know, before Ross Scott became semi-famous as the Stop Killing Games guy... he has a youtube series on reviewing usually older, niche or odd games, and before that, he was probably most well known for a long running show...
Freeman's Mind. Basically he plays through Half Life and just roleplays as Gordon, his inner monologue. He got somewhat into Half Life 2, but uh, Stop Killing Games started to 'happen'.
Now, you don't think one man alone can topple an incrediblely well resourced machine of propoganda and power, with scores of thousands of loyal agents, do you?
Follow Freeman.
Does the EU have a process to report this to their parliament?
@stopkillinggames@mastodon.social should make a list of killable games so that people can be aware of which games they are buying may end up killed and useless.
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