then don’t make single player games (or sections of games) require a server.
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sommerset@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
What u attempt to accomplish? Maintaining games also takes time and effort and server costs and they likely kill them to save costs.
There is no way this petition is gonna do anything
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
deur@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Its okay to stop running the servers. All gamers want is to have the stuff it takes to continue to enjoy the game after the companies are done.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Enable offline mode. That’s the very least they can do. These game, like how EA famously claim that it’s not possible for SimCity to run in offline mode and then soon release an offline mode, should be playable offline.
Enable private server/p2p hosting. This would make sure playing with friends is still possible after the server went down.
seralth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s trivial in the grand scheme of things to release a localhost server to let games run offline. For the amount of work that goes into games already this is a drop in the bucket.
It’s also trivial if you know it’s a requirement at the start of the project.
So even if it does nothing for games out now, if it makes it a requirement going forward that alone would be a massive success all by it self.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
It might get the EU to make a law.
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
At best we get fresh new EULA’s to click through on our way to play our game.
I’ve signed a lot of petitions over the years, and I’d sign this one too, but it’s pretty naive to think this will actually do anything useful.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
This is not just a random petition, it has legal force to compel the EU to officially hear the issue.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 day ago
you can’t sign away consumer rights in a EULA
4am@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
When games put DRM in them that requires a server
And I buy that game
And then they take away that server
I want my money back
Or for them to latch the game so it works
It’s not fucking hard to figure out