Che tu sia un giocatore, un genitore o un umano sano, dai un’occhiata a questo se hai 2 minuti.
Ogni voto è utile. Finora l’Irlanda ha già una grande esibizione, guidiamolo prima della scadenza.
PS: mi scuso se questo è già stato pubblicato!
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en
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di HuedJackMan
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lmao let’s ban butter knife’s while we’re at it
huge proponent of this movement. we deserve to own the things we buy.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI) should probably have included this for people who have no idea what this means.
Couple of comments here that think this is banning games with killing in it. Haha
It’s about buying a game and a couple of years later you can’t play it anymore because the company has ‘killed’ it.
The petition is to ban that practice by developers and studios.
Signed now
For those who don’t know, this (possibly badly named) initiative aims to prevent video game publishers from disabling or bricking games. It would mean that if a company decides to cancel a game, particularly those you have to connect to the internet to play, the customer who bought it should still be able to play it even if there are no more updates or customer support.
> 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.
I think “a functional (playable) state” is the kind of definition that’d prove to be very tricky to enforce, or implement with Multiplayer games especially, but we live in an era where we own _nothing_ we “buy” anymore. Music, film, video-games, books; it’s all digital leasing but with prices in excess of old physical products.
I played killing games all through my youth and so far I haven’t killed anyone IRL.
Could you post a title that actually says what is about next time?
“Pirate Software” enters to chat to have a rant why SKG is bad.
At first I thought this was a petition to stop “killing games” like fox hunting.
I’m doing my part!
This is way down my list of priorities.
Great initiative.
The other thing that needs to stop is dying of old games due to lack of softcopies / degrading media. I am talking about those old games that can only be played on emulators, especially those that had limited release with very few or zero uploads, with original media close to expiry. Where publishers / developers do not release the code / assets, do not remaster and delete all leaked copies. This is how games are actually lost forever.