| ▲ | guidedlight 2 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This has been happening with Video Games for a while. There is a major initiative called "Stop Killing Games" which was triggered when Ubisoft bricked "The Crew" when servers were shutdown. https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ There has been some success. There is new legislation in California which has passed the Assembly. https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22330/stop-killing-game... And there is a citizens initiative in Europe which the the European Commission must respond to: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/20... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | somenameforme 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is much worse. The Crew was always framed as an 'always online' game, even if that was technically a farce. This would be more like if Bethesda rolled out an update to cripple Skyrim after releasing a new Elder Scrolls game to lackluster sales. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | throwawayk7h an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's good legislation. I would love to see this extended to "Stop Killing Software" in general, with the same provisions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | wilg an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I think you should be allowed to stop supporting software or shut down your servers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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