Online petition asks for European law to prevent video games “off” – Internet

Stop Killing Games Movement continues to fight for video games, and more releases are based on servers. The The problem is when these games have not been profitable for years and publishers start servers.
A. The trend is not only about online multiplayer games, but depends on the existence of servers in support of match making. But more dependent styles: moba, bottle royal, game as service services. And the headings with the summary of the floor also provide some features that require communication with servers and are in danger after the support of publishers.
A. The online petition aims to alert the European Commission, to create laws that require greater commitment of publishers to preserve their gamesWhen stopping the servers, some games are literally forced to send to the garbage because they are not working.
Oh Stop killing games He is “growing video games actually selling as an object, without the declared expiration date, but it is designed to be completely impossible to play as soon as the editor support is over.” It calls it a form of a program that is not used to be a form of a program, which is not only harmful to consumers, but also impossible to care. The legality of this practice has not yet been tested in many countries.
AS Previous petitions The movement has positive results, with consumer defense companies in countries such as France, Germany and Australia. The latest focuses on appeal to publishers who sold or play video games to play licenses, which leave them in a functional state to continue using and playing. The The petition “tries to prevent publishers from disabled games before providing customers, reasonable ways, so that they can continue using them without the participation of publishers”. The petition is now available on the portal European Commission.