Janez 530 Posted August 11 Quote Objectives This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state. Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher. The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state. Support this initiative proposed by European Union citizens: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home How to fill out the form: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci Details: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en Video Summary by Ross Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI Quote Though this plan may have a critical weakness, and that I'm counting on gamers to care about not seeing their games destroyed. I hope that's not too big an ask, because years from now somebody could be saying, "Yeah, I had the chance to save gaming, but it required me to open up a whole new tab in my browser, and fill in my name, and a CAPTCHA...oh my God... Ennh... So I didn't do it. It was just too much work. It wasn't worth it..." 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
honger 114 Posted August 11 Signed it up a week ago or so. Sounds like it would be institutional abandonware except completely legal now. I'm all in. And I'm all for seeing Ubisoft being kicked in their asses for the shitty job they do to take games away from people who bought them, like the infamous The Crew singleplayer lock. Hopefully if SKG's initiative becomes a rule, it will be applied retroactively too. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Janez 530 Posted August 11 On 8/11/2024 at 3:01 PM, honger said: And I'm all for seeing Ubisoft being kicked in their asses for the shitty job they do to take games away from people who bought them, like the infamous The Crew singleplayer lock. Ubisoft sure is leading the charge on that although the likes of EA and M$ like to also shut the whole studio down in addition! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
