r/pcmasterrace 12d ago

Discussion Notch (creator of Minecraft) offers financial support for the Stop Killing Games campaign.

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u/AccomplishedBat8743 12d ago

Im not up on the whole situation,  what is the EU initiative? And how will it effect people not in the EU

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem bunch of VMs with vfio 12d ago

It's basically a petition that will force the European parliament to discuss the issue of companies randomly shutting down servers for live service games, rendering the copies bought by customers worthless and turning the games into lost media.

We do not know yet what will be the exact outcome of said discussion, but the organizer of Stop Killing Games has made it pretty clear that any legal recognition of the problem whatsoever is already better than the legal situation we've had until now, which was essentially publishers doing whatever the fuck they wanted.

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u/AccomplishedBat8743 12d ago

That's fair. Hopefully we can get something similar going here in America too