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traderj0e an hour ago

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galleywest200 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If you do not care then why did you take the time to share an opinion on the topic?

traderj0e an hour ago | parent [-]

I care about the topic from a legal and technical standpoint and am interested to see the outcome, just have no skin in the game and no sympathy for the industry or a bunch of children (both literal and figurative) who will whine whichever way it goes.

ssenssei 20 minutes ago | parent [-]

Imagine buying a TV. The TV works perfectly, but some of its features depend on the manufacturer’s servers.

Years later, the company decides those servers are no longer profitable to maintain. Instead of allowing users to keep using the product in a limited form, releasing server software, enabling community maintenance, or transferring support to another party, they remotely disable the functionality entirely.

Now imagine they could physically come to your house and take the TV back because they no longer want to support it. Most people would immediately recognize how unreasonable that sounds.

That is the core concern behind Stop Killing Games: consumers pay for a product, yet publishers can make it unusable after sale even when there are technically feasible alternatives that would preserve access without obligating indefinite support.

The argument is not “force companies to run servers forever.” It is: when official support ends, there should be a reasonable end-of-life path that leaves what people purchased in a functional state.

traderj0e 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

The answer is I wouldn't buy a TV that depends on online services. Just like I already wouldn't buy a video game like that, at least not an expensive one. Maybe someone is fine spending a few bucks on an iffy game. Both those examples are very non-essential items too.

NotHereNotThere an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What an asinine comment.

Gaming companies rendering games you paid for unusable is a real problem, just as much as planned obsolescence occuring in everyday items.

Screaming children? Really? Most gamers are over 18 and there's billions of them.

traderj0e an hour ago | parent [-]

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NotHereNotThere an hour ago | parent [-]

Not sure what you're even trying to say, but guess I hit a nerve.