Stop Killing Games

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[EU/UK] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from 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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UK Final Day 14/7/2025

EU Final Day: 31/7/2025.

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We Need to Protect Our Games From Publishers! (lemmy.ca)

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[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pirate WoW? What do you mean?

WoW server emulators are all opensource and hosted on GitHub, what's there to pirate?

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The rest of the game? Lmao

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What? The client is free and downloadable by anyone, it's not protected in any way, never has been, ownership is checked server-side on your account.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And if you've ever actually played a wow private server you would realize none of the NPCs or anything is in the game except the world. That's all server sided and needs to be re-coded into the server

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I personally don't think that "just playing" on a pserver is enough to realize what's in it, you need to compile and setup one to truly understand.

For those wondering, you can check projects like TrinityCore, AzerothCore or CMangos, those are the most popular ones.