The Stop Killing Games campaign have revealed their support for a Californian bill related to game server shoutdowns.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t agree with the companies having to run the servers forever, imagine how that impacts indie shops.

    But when they take the burden of running sole-hosted servers and shut them down, they should have to push some self host able server software for the community.

    And single player hands should never require on line functionality.

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      9 hours ago

      Good job you agree with SKG. They have said over and over again that they do not think they should have to keep hosting servers indefinitely just not making the thing you spent money on unusable. Wether that be by giving the community server hosting software or in cases of games like the crew just not making single player online only.

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        9 hours ago

        Luckly you agree with SKG. They have always said they are not fighting to force companies to keep servers running. They are fighting for us to have the right to either run them offline or to run our own servers when the game is no longer supported.

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        9 hours ago

        There are no requirements under SKG to force them to run games forever just FYI. Their wording is soft on purpose. It could mean running a server still sure, or releasing a dedicated server client, or even releasing the source code so independent developers and open source folks can figure out how to run them themselves.