It’s not going to get the signatures because the average person does not care about this. I play a lot of games and even I don’t care. If you don’t like the game, don’t buy it. Why does there need to be regulation to stop me from buying it too?
Comment on Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched
Aielman15@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI wish some big-name YT/Twitch personality helped raise awareness for the petition. It’s ending in a few months and if nothing changes, I don’t see it reaching the required signatures in time.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Interesting how condifently you are talking about the subject even though your comment makes it obvious you have no idea what the petition is about.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them.
If a company says they’re going to disable a video game a year after I purchase it and I won’t be able to retain or repair it and I agree to those terms, can I still buy it?
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not sure what you mean. This is not about people being able to buy games or not. Its about companies shutting down games after some time making them unplayable, even for people who already purchased them. Its like if Samsung would remotely lock your TV making you unable to turn it on again because they stopped “supporting” it.
There is simply no way to justify it. Its a symptom of greed, they dont want you to own a product that doesnt generate them revenue anymore.
moody@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
The goal is not to prevent you from agreeing to bad terms, it’s to prevent the companies from imposing those bad terms on people.
Would you rather buy a game that you know is going to die in a year, or the same game but that can be played for as long as you want?
Would you rather companies keep making games with a short expiration date, or games that people can keep playing if they so choose?
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
No company ever sells games with the disclaimer that they might stop supporting those games at some arbitrary point in the future they sell the games with the understanding that you are purchasing a product that you will own after you give the company the required amount of money.
They are not selling you a limited term license, they are selling you a product. They should not be allowed to then change their minds after the fact without compensating the customer.
CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yes. Such a transaction would be legally classified as a service: You pay publisher a one-time fee for access to the right to play their game over a known period of time.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Depends on the territory. The argument is that the practice as it stands now is against current consumer laws in places like the UK. Functionally, even if they were forced to provide this disclaimer, it would still lead to the current state of things being less lucrative and would discourage the practice anyway, which I would still call some kind of a win.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Even if you just looked at the screenshot it’s pretty clear that’s not what the petition is about. Could you go away and do literally one seconds worth of research, and then come back and explain why you made such a brainless comment.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Does Ross/Accursed Farms, the person who started this movement, not count?
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s good, he’s the originator, but the reach in Europe is not that great and there have only been a few multilingual channels that have picked it up.