News on what the UK government response means on the issue of game destruction by publishers! It's not all awful, just most of it! Also, some news on how t...

From the videos description: News on what the UK government response means on the issue of game destruction by publishers! It’s not all awful, just most of it! Also, some news on how the campaign to end game destruction is going internationally. Relevant links below:

Australian Petition: https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6080

UK Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071/

Canadian Petition: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4965

https://stopkillinggames.com

    • then_three_more@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      6 months ago

      I’ve not watched either, but this is probably the relevant extract from the wall of text that the UK gov put up.

      If consumers are led to believe that a game will remain playable indefinitely for certain systems, despite the end of physical support, the CPRs may require that the game remains technically feasible (for example, available offline) to play under those circumstances.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Basically, there probably is a legal case to answer especially for supposedly single player games that have online components, but it would be up to individuals to actually go about suing the game companies, the government isn’t going to get involved.

      I sent it at the time, petition was badly done, it really should have just focused on keeping software products in general around after support is dropped by the creating company. This isn’t just an issue that affects video games, and get and by using video games in the name it allows the government to kind of just dismiss it.