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After 350,000 signatures in an EU consumer rights campaign, Ubisoft is adding offline modes to The Crew games - but not the now-dead original (www.gamesradar.com)

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[-] anonymous111@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I thought I'd see this and was surprised not to.

Please proselytize your EU brethren. Signing this Citizen's Initiative is the best chance to fix the dead games issue globally.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

The guy behind it has a lot of videos explaining the logic. Here is the short version (1 min vid):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGfqef-IqQ

Call to arms!

[-] aksdb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

While I like and appreciate the campaign, the issue IMO is bigger. IoT devices for example even have environmental impact when services behind them get discontinued.

I would therefore like a more general rule: whenever a product is discontinued for whatever reason, all necessary documents, sources, etc need to be released to allow third parties to take over maintenance (that also includes schematics for hardware repairs).

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

I think many people who are responsible for pushing the campaign forward would agree it's a much bigger issue. It's just that the bigger issue is big enough that there are multiple fronts one could fight on, and this is a politically useful opportunity to push forward. A victory from this campaign will be unlikely to lead to the larger developments without more of a fight, because achieving the general rule will take a few instances of arguing the specific case.

For now, I'm excited to see where this leads, even if the answer might be "nowhere"

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