Back in 2007 when I was but a small lad of only ten years old I would never have guessed that coming across a funny machinima of Gordon Freeman's inner thoughts would eventually lead me to actively engaged in, learning about and following along with both European and United states legislative processes and how industry regulations and standards slowly start to form and be put into place.
As an amateur media preservationist, seeing things that people paid for disappear isn't cool, so this is my humble endorsement of the Stop Killing Games campaign created by Ross Scott of Freeman's Mind fame.
You might've seen some questionable press about the campaign, from a rather unreliable narrator who doesn't seem to know what it's actually about.
Think of it like this: FusionFall was originally a subscription you had to pay for in its first year. It went free to play one year later. If instead they completely shut it down after that one year? That's what this is trying to prevent. Live service games having some kind of built-in means of still being able to play to some extent after support has ended.
It's not asking to give the people the tools to keep it going, just have some kind of long-term inbuilt plan for these cases instead of people wasting their money only for companies to shut it down whenever they want.
This is unfortunately only for followers that live in the EU, as this is where the initiative is directed, as there's a glaring hole in their laws about these kind of things. It only needs less than another 100,000 within the deadline of the final day of July to make it through!
New update on the Stop Killing Games intiative: The EU Citizens' Initiative to pass a law preventing the destruction of video games is now live and gathering signatures!
Check out Ross Scott's youtube video for further information about what's going on.
If you're not a citizen of the EU, please spread this! We need all the signal boosting we can get.
If you ARE a citizen of the EU, please go to the Stop Killing Games website and select your country of residence for information on how to fill in the form correctly, and then visit the European Citizens' Initiative website and sign the petition.
I hate piratesoftware so much. He is so annoying and talks out of his ass. I'm not a programmer, or game developer but I am a fan of ross scott, and stop killing games. Thor missed the point so hard and defended a terrible business model when he talked about stop killing games.
He is so far up his own ass I can't stand him.