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I really don't have any concrete intuition as to what the stop killing games initiative is trying to achieve. can someone help? do they want companies to keep up the servers forever? or force them to distribute all parts of their software necessary for thr game to function? or just more disclosure in advertising material about how the support of the game is not indefinite?
I like live service games. I played hundreds of hours of Sea of Thieves and No Man's Sky with my girlfriend. I played Overwatch with friends from work. I still play PUBG with my friends who have moved to different countries, it's an amazing way to keep in touch.
So I cannot support the take that "killing live service games is good".
At the same time, I don't think signing the petition will lead to that. Louis Rossman gave a very measured response[1], which I almost completely agree with.
I also agree with Asmongold's response, and even with his relatively radical take on IP rights[2,3].
Finally, I think everyone has the right to voice their opinion without being doxxed, sent life threats and other extremely shitty things that the internet at large is capable of.
[1] https://youtu.be/TF4zH8bJDI8 [2] https://youtu.be/AhVsyhjcndw [3] https://youtu.be/ib012R40yto
Liking live service games dosent contradict the Petition tho, as far as I understand. According to what I understand, that dude only wants to have a Server binary provided once the service goes down, and it would in no way interfere with the games that are still being supported
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Yeah it's kind of funny how the petition is called "Stop killing games" yet people (not Ross in this case, but the author of the meme for instance) are completely fine with killing live service games.
Like it or not, millions of people enjoy these kinds of games, and specifically the ever-changing aspect (be it in Splatoon, TF2, Sea of Thieves...), so saying that it's "wrong" to like these kinds of games reeks of the usual, chud-adjacent gamer elitisms (like with PC master race, "mobile games aren't real games", etc.)