23 pointsby evah15 hours ago4 comments
  • musicale4 hours ago
    > The Stop Killing Games movement highlights the growing frustration among players who see their purchases vanish

    Well they should just get used to it, right?

  • 4ndrewl10 hours ago
    We need new language around this (games, in-game purchases, movie rentals, music streaming). It's not digital ownership, or buying.

    It's renting with all rights given to the landlord.

  • zoobab13 hours ago
    Pétitions don't work, we need to replace politicians by something else.
    • cedws12 hours ago
      The petition against the online age verification law was hilarious. It got a few hundred thousand signatures and the response was just "lol no."

      The Labour government had an opportunity to kill pointless government overreach and win some brownie points, instead they just carried the torch on from the Tories. I don't expect that they'll be reelected.

    • tmtvl12 hours ago
      I just vote with my wallet. Ubisoft kills games? I won't be playing any more Ubisoft games then. Same for EA or any other company that does stuff I dislike.

      If I cared more I would engage a bit more and try to raise awareness so as to try to get people to do the same, but I think the market in general will start shifting on its own (if only because games will start getting too expensive for this kind of thing again so we'll end up like back in the day when one bought a game and played it until the cartridge wore out).

      • rounce9 hours ago
        > we'll end up like back in the day when one bought a game and played it until the cartridge wore out

        Or people will just go back to pirating everything. It’s already happening with paid video and music streaming services due to increasing monthly subscription costs and catalogue fragmentation.

    • meheleventyone12 hours ago
      Clearly they do work because this one achieved quite a lot. It’s not nothing to have a Parliamentary debate on a subject because of a petition!
      • CrzyLngPwd12 hours ago
        The number of UK Government and Parliament petitions that have led to an identifiable policy change is so small as to be statistically negligible — effectively a rounding error compared with the total number submitted.
  • PoignardAzur12 hours ago
    tl;dr: The government's argument is the old "if we mandate seatbelts, cars will be too expensive and nobody will make them except for luxury brands" argument.