Re: Video games Europe - Seriously?

On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 08:27:59 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
wrote:

*Fascinating stuff I must say, it seems to be based on Stop Killing game
are trying to get petitions signed with enough number that respective
governments are legally required to at least consider what they are
proposing - in a nutshell, all games (both single and multiplayer)
should be developed with a sunset plan so when the company decides to no
longer support them they can still be played in some reasonable form
without the companies involvement at all. I like the idea but of not
sure of the practicalities especially when it comes to live services games.

Well, that would accomplish exactly the opposite, as those companies
would choose to sunset games after a year to spur on new sales, and
probably would not open source server code so MP games would just
effectively shut down. MP players would have to reverse engineer the
whole damn thing to keep a community going.

They win the George Orwell prize for 2025.

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Zag

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