A screenshot of a tweet stolen from reddit, as is lemmy tradition.
You can’t compel companies to keep a server up. It’s a silly request that was doomed from the start.
But you can make it legal for fans to host their own servers, regardless of the financial success of the game. If “Stop Killing Games” wants to actually achieve something, they should fight for legal protections for fan servers.
Publishers shouldn’t be able to issue Cease & Disists for fan self-hosted communities around games who’s dev’s they’ve shuttered. Hell, push it one step further, fans should be allowed to host their own servers even when the publisher is still maintaining their own.
TF2 is kinda the gold standard here. Why the hell can’t we have community servers for Elden Ring, or League of Legends?
Pretty sure the goal behind Stop Killing Games wasn’t to make companies host servers, but force them into an end of life plan that would keep the games playable without the servers.
Better, but that’s still too much of an ask for the European legal system. Gotta frame it as consumer rights to do what they will with the software, not as an obligation mandated on the business. One puts an obligation of enforcement on the sate, the other decreases the amount of legal challenges the courts deal with.
I’d highly suggest watching the many clips available online on Ross Scott’s channel, the SKG channel and whatever clips have been passed around. You’re very much misinformed, seemingly only listening to the corpo side. SKG isn’t dead nor asked for support in perpetuity. These are lies being pushed by the corpos who care for nothing but having the full comtents of your wallet and have been lying to the EU Commission repeatedly in an alarming number of private meetings that has forced SKG to answer the same four questions for over a year. The only thing this whole debacle has given us so far is prove how corrupt the Commission is. SKG is now working with the EU Parliament, who is majority on-side and several members of which have openly stated their disappointment in the Commission being so blatant, but also not surprised, just like anyone else who’s been paying attention.
If you watch the video by Ross it’s pretty clear the EU commission was biased against the effort. Fortunately there’s more support in the EU parliament and talk about expanding the digital fairness act.
And fortunately EU parliament the one who really creates laws not EU commission