Submitted 2 days ago by mecen@lemmy.ca to games@lemmy.world
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This is self explanatory; to all who do not support the idea of ownership, there shall be no more funding, regardless of their game’s quality.
Repost from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1ugzirg/stoppayinggames/
If TES 6 is good when it comes out in 20 years I might buy that, but Ive been doing an unintentional blacklist of these guys for a while now
We were barely 1.3 million that bothered to sign a petition, and you want to convince people to give up games from 95% of publishers? Good luck.
You don’t have to stop playing games from these companies. You just have to stop paying for them.
Piracy is and has always been easy.
This is the movement. It is time to take gaming back from for profit studios who want us to have zero rights to what we purchase.
Are there nonprofit studios? I don’t think I understand.
I think you are getting closure to what is needed.
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I can get behind this.
I feel like President Skroob and his luggage, here. This encapsulates what’s already on my own ban list nearly verbatim. Incredible.
I feel like maybe I need to read more about the whole “stop killing games” thing. It’s awesome and fine if they expect at some point the game will be able to be played through a free multiplayer tool that enables someone to host and pay for private games.
It’s quite another if they think companies should have to shell money out of pocket indefinitely to run infrastructure for multiplayer games after x years of release and/or once player base passes a certain threshold number.
I’m admitting my ignorance here but I do think it’s fair to at least question both sides some
SKG has repeatedly stated, that they don’t want eternal support from publishers/developers, but the means to run the games, once the official support and infrastructure is gone. that could mean tools to run private servers locally or online or some sort of offline singleplayer mode.
Thanks for filling me in, I do think that makes sense. I know I got downvotes for thinking aloud but appreciate you answering.
Stop Killing Games explicitly does not want endless support from a publisher. They are advocating for publishers to implement an End of Life plan during the development stages of a game that can be enacted after the publisher wishes to stop supporting a game, so that a player has a reasonable chance of continuing to play the game on their own, either by disabling Always Online DRM, removing the Online component of a game with a large single player campaign (like The Crew), or providing server binaries so the user can self-host a server.
Thanks for filling me in, I do think that makes sense. I know I got downvotes for thinking aloud but appreciate you answering.
Imagining thinking Netflix is a games company.
So bleak
They released crappy games for android
They licensed and distributed them. I’m not aware of any they actually made
I’ve been doing this for about 15 years and it hasn’t made a difference. Let’s not kid ourselves that it’s going to change anything except keeping ourselves from getting burned
2K shut down Battleborn, I am still pissed.
I already don’t, so…
Riot and square too. Like Riot’s business model is one that StopKillingGames recognized would likely get excluded as it’s obvious from the start you only get your purchases while the servers are running. And square has supported their two mmos forever already, everybody knows exactly what they get there.
Are gamers capable of voting with their wallets? How about slasking for and supporting games that allow users to host their own servers like we had in the 90s? Are there even any games that do this any more?
Most but not all of the survival crafting genre will allow you to host your own servers. Others still have LAN using listen servers, but both are rare.
there is a pretty small game owned by microsoft that allows you to do that
I don’t even remember the last game I bought that required an internet server. If I can’t host a local game or private server for multi-player, I’m not interested. Of course, I only buy maybe one game a year, and it’s never anything current these days.
I bought a few games from smaller studios and indie devs and i get “AAA” when it’s a giveaway like GTA 5 a few years ago but i mostly go sailing and even that isn’t necessary lately because of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. G.A.M.M.A. and been playing it since 0.9.3 so about 2 years maybe and i did try S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and it was meh so paying 60-200$ for 1 game that will most likely barely be played is a waste of money for me so no point in coming into port.
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I swear even after staring at it for 30s that said “ESL FACESIT GROUP”.
GMac@feddit.org 1 day ago
Lol i read it as facsist