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Stop Killing Games Canadian Petition - Now Open For Signature (www.ourcommons.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by recursive_recursion@programming.dev to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/441893

Stop Killing Games Canadian Petition - Now Open For Signature

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20896275

Stop Killing Games Canadian Petition - Now Open For Signature

Petition E-4965 is the one that is posted to stopkillinggames.com, Ross Scott (Accursed Farms)'s campaign to end the practice of bricking games people have purchased, whenever the publisher doesn't want to support it anymore.

It is open for signing by Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents, until September 5th 2024.

Please spread the word to your Canadian friends and family who take interest in games, and please add your name to it to support this campaign to help preserve games in some form in perpetuity.

Thank you!

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Open sourcing it is the solution but there is no enforcement possible

Studios can just shut down unless they are required to hand the source over to enter the market

[–] knitwitt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This would be an issue if the servers use any proprietary code, libraries, or services the developer is not at liberty to distribute.

A studio may also to reuse their networking code for a sequel, and it would suck being forced to release that just because an older title got discontinued - could lead to exploits, or just competitors profiting off of your hard work with no compensation in exchange.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They could just keep the game running to avoid that

But if the source isn’t available then the game will eventually be lost