Comment on John Wick Hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning July 17th, 2025

RiQuY@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While everyone should sign it, the campaign is about publishers that kill games that could conceivably remain working.

  De-listing is likely a result of expired licensing or similar, and I don’t think it’s feasible (or realistic) to require companies to renew licenses in perpetuity just to keep selling games.

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  • duchess@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People should learn to read more than the name of the petition.

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    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Stop Killing Games” is a consumer movement started to challenge the legality of publishers destroying video games they have sold to customers. An increasing number of video games are sold effectively as goods - with no stated expiration date - but designed to be completely unplayable as soon as support from the publisher ends. This practice is a form of planned obsolescence and is not only detrimental to customers, but makes preservation effectively impossible. Furthermore, the legality of this practice is largely untested in many countries.

      People should read the petition before being snarky and wrong.

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      • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        John Wick Hex has been sold as a completed product and will remain playable even after the published pulls the plug. This is not planned obsolescence, their license for the movie rights has expired.

        Stop Killing Games has NOTHING to do with this.

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      • duchess@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What you have quoted is not what’s happening to John Wick Hex. People who bought it can still download and play it.

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    • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      G*mers aren’t known for being smart enough to read.

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• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While I agree with the sentiment: It won’t be killed, “just” de-listed from sale. If you buy it now, you can still p/ay it.

  Although an end-of-life plan would probably make it easier for the publishers to still sell the game after licences expire.

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  • duchess@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why did you write „play“ like this?

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    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Typo

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  • RiQuY@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Delisting a game goes against the point of game preservation. The trick of “buy it now to keep it” sounds like FOMO.

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    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s still not what the initiative is asking for (in the EU)

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    • iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You think publishers should not be allowed to decide when they want to stop selling their goods?

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