cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/31703716
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/31703708
I know these rarely have any sway with our governments and there is more important things in the world atm, but it’s getting close to the end now and it’s worth a reminder.
I don’t think it’s shitty or ambiguous, but I do think it has a lot of change.org energy where They think if they hit a magic number that the government is somehow going to have to respond in a meaningful way, rather than just message them saying it’s nice that there is interest in this initiative.
I am actually very passionate about game preservation, and I supported this initiative when it started because you never know, but it’s very clear that this is not a viable path. As evidenced by the UK government saying months ago that they are not going to be addressing this with legislation.
The main points my friends brought out is “How are the games not going to be killed? “Just like make them available” is not an answer. Are they companies now forced to run the games always for eternity on their servers or do expensive reworks that may not even be possible to make them singleplayer or are hosting game servers banned now???”
They do explain that these companies need to either open source/release a version of the servers folks can run for each other or at least create an offline mode. We see Ubisoft doing this currently with The Crew so there is definitely a path here, it’s just going to be a hell of a slog lol