Gamers seek legal win that would stop developers from rendering online games unplayable: 'It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation

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Gamers seek legal win that would stop developers from rendering online games unplayable: 'It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media'

Gamers seek legal win that would stop developers from rendering online games unplayable: 'It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media'

The organizer of "Stop Killing Games" hopes to get France and other governments to examine the legality of live service shutdowns.

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[Sunrise Ninja]

Definitely a good idea, needs to be like Knockout City.

 

[Systemshock2023]

Hate what they did with the crew for instance.

 

[Zzero]

Its odd that he's targeting France, a week ago Austria and Germany were supposed to be his main targets. And for months prior to that it was supposed to be the US until he actually had a lawyer spoon-feed him caselaw and realized that he'd get an absolute asswhooping delivered upon him in any US court.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Idiotic, devs aren’t can’t be forced to support a game forever sorry.

 

[Old Gamer]

Idiotic, devs aren’t can’t be forced to support a game forever sorry.

They could be forced to support a game for a reasonable amount of time that is longer than 2 years and maybe throw in LAN support at end of life, you know?

 

[Bryank75]

Would be nice but I can't see how to enforce it...if a company went out of business for instance.

 

[Vertigo]

Nah, they can’t support failed or retired products. That’s just ridiculous.

No one is expecting suicide squad to stay operational and it shouldn’t. Shut it down.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Once again PC wins by default as people have been able to host their own servers since forever. But as always people will say something that has been a reality for over 30years on PC is impossible on console because reasons.

I find it completely silly that devs fail to implement servers in a way that would allow people to play in them as long as there is interest in the game. Part of the responsibility is also shared by the platform holder.

 

[arvfab]

I don't see why some are calling this "idiotic". Devs/pubs don't have to support it anymore by maintaining the servers or updating them.

It would be sufficient to release the backend source code or at the very least some form of executable to host a server oneself once EOL is reached.

 

[xollowsob]

Honestly, how hard is it to put a patch In where online games are played on private servers or locally on consoles?

I would love to play KOTOR online without the online MMO requirements.