Stop Killing Games

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Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.

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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft. (wccftech.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It still blows my mind that someone thought Minecraft was worth two billion dollars. ...in 2014. .......and they seemed to be mostly correct.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mostly? Pretty sure Microsoft has seen s profit on that purchase.