Stop killing games

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If the servers for Darktide or Vermintide 2 were shut down, we could never again play the games we bought - not even with bots.

There is an initiative in the EU to stop the death of video games. It‘s not about forcing publishers to run the servers indefinitely - which would be unreasonable. But publishers should be required to ensure, that their games are still playable after they shut down the servers.

I think this is an important initiative as nowadays even many SP games require servers and will become unplayable without them.

If you live in the EU and agree that this is worthwhile you should support the initiative.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

If you don’t trust the link, feel free to google „stop killing games“ yourself.

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Once a game has been shut down officially, providing a server client or making it open source and providing that to the community is the class act and ultimate act of professionalism.

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I’ve heard people mention that they plan to make it open source or sumfin once they shut down the servers, so I wouldn’t worry about it :slight_smile:

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Source?

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supported and signed

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watch Piratesoftware’s video on this, he explains a few key points about the whole thing

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Not really. He gets lots of stuff wrong or misrepresents it (I think unknowingly).
If you want to watch Pirate Software video, please also watch Ross’ 40 min FAQ Video where most non-opinion based criticism from Pirate Software is explained.

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I (might have) made it up, otherwise some nerd on discord told me :3

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In any case - that would be cool. That’s why I hoped to read an original statement by a dev ^^

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Interesting in what European countries this petition receives great attention and in which not.

Sweden is among the more actively subscribing countries as is Poland - so two of the countries with very active developer crowds.

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We are at 6 countries / 7 needed. The petition should complete this condition.
However, only 353 582 signatures, and we need 1 million…

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Yes - very true. But it’s a year more time - we‘ll see.

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While I do remember them saying that there would be something after/when it shut down, but that it was too early for them to say what it would be (as things could change after years)

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