Don’t let publishers destroy the games you bought with kill switches!
Please support the initiative of Stop Killing Games!
From today’s video, I’m under the impression the country totals no longer matter and they just need to hit 1 million signatures.
Thank you Ross!
You’re correct, we just need the signatures from any EU country.
Not to be overly disillusioned (though I am), but does this petition accomplish anything that isn’t merely performative?
In the USA it’s performative, but in the EU it means they will actually need to talk about it.
Yeah, so performative. I’ve seen quite some petitions for the German parliament which made the threshold, so that the representatives had to talk about it. They talked and all ended with “No, won’t do”. I expect the same to happen in the European Parliament, even after clearing those ridiculously high thresholds.
i would think they were either extreme far left or extreme far right. stopkillinggames isnt controversial.
PirateSoftware can get fucked. I’m glad this initiative is alive again.
What did PS say?
Edit - nevermind. He had a well thought out opposing viewpoint which you disagree with.
God forbid there should be a healthy discourse on a matter.
The initiative is not asking for retroactive enforcement.
They are asking for an end of life plan for games made after some TBD date. Something that at least gives end-users a chance that it can be played after a corporation ends support. Ideally that would be server binaries, but it could also mean documentation on how the server infrastructure works so it can be rebuilt by motivated end-users.
PS’s use of League of Legends is awful because all they would need for an end of life plan (if it had been required at the time) is to add a LAN mode just like PvP games from years and years ago, I.e. Quake, Warcraft, Starcraft, Counter-Strike, Halo… Etc etc etc.
That’s it. That doesn’t require “endless” support.
he was massively misinformed and refused to back down when shown how his argument was flawed.
Or maybe just maybe he’s not massively misinformed but it reading things differently hence no need to back down?
For context I read this.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/pirate-software-stop-killing-games-drama
Nothing in there states he’s wrong simply he is interpreting things differently and his interpretation does not align with yours.
Also, complex but I doubt you are in the business of making games so I’m confident he probably has additional context forming his viewpoint which you do not.
Again, god forbid people have opinions. Is this where we are in the terms of discourse now? We are not allowed to disagree because one side feels they are “right”?
Fyi I have no skin in the game.
Hi, someone who does make games here!
Whilst there are some concerns with the interpretability of the movement, the reasoning I have seen pirate software give comes across as disingenuous. He explains the worst possible reading, and dismisses the entire movement rather than help guiding it in the right direction like someone in his position could do.
The real reason people are mad at him is because he made some unnecessarily rude comments about the organiser and the movement as a whole, which was incredibly unprofessional and made a lot of people feel betrayed by openly siding with the same big studios that many people feel cheated by right now.
If you happen to have any questions, feel free to reach out! This is an incredibly passionate subject for both players and developers alike, but a lot gets lost in the crossfire :)
