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VIDEOGAMES EUROPE: Statement on Stop Killing Games [pro-killing games: "remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable"]

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      BS. There are plenty of community hosted servers of games that operate with no issues. This has corp written all over it.

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      • AmbiguousPropsA AmbiguousProps

        BS. There are plenty of community hosted servers of games that operate with no issues. This has corp written all over it.

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        some_random_nick@lemmy.world
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        They pretty much repeat everythibg Ross said the initiative is NOT set out to do. Just like that brat PirateSoftware… Mallicious from the get go.

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          BS. There are plenty of community hosted servers of games that operate with no issues. This has corp written all over it.

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          vittelius@feddit.org
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          That’s because it is corp. Videogames Europe is the lobbying organisation of the Euopean gaming indusry

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            almacca@aussie.zone
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            We just want to know what the end of life plan is up front. If we know it will be gone completely at some future point, we can use that information in deciding whether to purchase it in the first place.

            Why is this so hard to understand?

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            • A almacca@aussie.zone

              We just want to know what the end of life plan is up front. If we know it will be gone completely at some future point, we can use that information in deciding whether to purchase it in the first place.

              Why is this so hard to understand?

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              If you are looking at it that way, you should not buy any game with an online component. Every single one of those will be gone at some point.

              I know you are asking the “when” but that can be difficult to assess for a company that is built on pure profit.

              Which is why the initiative is more about being able to make your own servers for these games, not about forcing companies to keep their servers alive indefinitely.

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              • MycarHolmesM MycarHolmes

                If you are looking at it that way, you should not buy any game with an online component. Every single one of those will be gone at some point.

                I know you are asking the “when” but that can be difficult to assess for a company that is built on pure profit.

                Which is why the initiative is more about being able to make your own servers for these games, not about forcing companies to keep their servers alive indefinitely.

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                almacca@aussie.zone
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                If you are looking at it that way, you should not buy any game with an online component.

                Way ahead of you. I generally avoid games that make me rely on other people for my fun anyway.

                That said, hypothetically, I still might ‘buy’ (i.e. lease) a game even if I know that it’ll be shut down eventually. It depends on the game. I even bought into the early access for Assetto Corsa Evo, although I am slightly uncomfortable that I don’t know what the EOL plan is for that. At least it has an offline mode built in.

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                • A almacca@aussie.zone

                  We just want to know what the end of life plan is up front. If we know it will be gone completely at some future point, we can use that information in deciding whether to purchase it in the first place.

                  Why is this so hard to understand?

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                  yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  That may be what you want but that’s not what stop killing games is about. You can’t ask for the life plan of some software because companies will simply say that they plan to keep it up forever and then later say “we can’t keep it up anymore! Too expensive! We go bankrupt uwu”

                  You can’t demand either from them that they upkeep a game fo as long as players exist.

                  The initiative is about making companies guarantee that if (when?) the games EOL arrives, then they release whatever resources are needed for players to continue using what they have paid for.

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                  • V vittelius@feddit.org

                    That’s because it is corp. Videogames Europe is the lobbying organisation of the Euopean gaming indusry

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                    That explains everything. In that case they can get fucked.

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