Games should give you the tools to continue to play them if/when they get shut down. You should keep access to the product you paid for
If any of my EU viewers agree, I urge you to sign the petition
Stop Killing Games
EU - https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
UK - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/
If any of my EU viewers agree, I urge you to sign the petition
Stop Killing Games
EU - https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
UK - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/
Comments
Game preservation, much like any form of preservation for entertainment like movies, TV shows, literature, music, and even art itself deserves some form of protection.
companies cannot have the rights to take away our products that we bought.
Or at least have it become standard practice with gaming companies.
That's my two cents as a US bystander though. I encourage folks to read it themselves first and foremost.
~That old lady Cookie
These petitions are likely in response to the shut down of The Crew, which was a racing game that got controversy over the ownership of the game. It was a license, and the players didn't truly own it.
But I agree that games shouldn’t charge and then just evaporate.
As an indie game dev why would I want any future or potential publisher to just delete my legacy whenever they want?
Plus if someone bought it, it's theres now.
Don't understand how other devs can't comprehend this and resort to strawman attacks.
And yes, if people pay sometimes hundreds for these games due to their (horrible) monetisation practices, then the absolutely lowest bar, limbo in hell, bare minimum, microscopic crumbs of an atom of a crumb they should have is the right to permanent access to them!!!
Please get at least more people. Ending like this would feel so bad. In this state it is hard to try it again in sth like the next 5 years.
Read the whole brief for yourself to make informed decisions!
Initiative or not it's too vague in its current state.
Also where the heck are you getting this information? Thor gets minimum wage in his current position and actively weeds out people doing hate.
I'm not sure how over 450k votes will be acquired in the next 30ish days when it took 11 months to get as far as it did.
I suppose there's nothing wrong with trying, though.
Though, the word "reasonable" is doing a lot of work here. Likely, there would need to be a subsidy to enable developing the "open" version of such games.
I'm just tired of seeing the projects which I and my colleagues poured years of our lives into simply disappear.
What makes something art (in something i've thought about for a while), probably isn't.... that important. Maybe it's that it's a resource that conglomerates will exploit... yet people will make it anyway.