3w ago

Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched

petition.parliament.uk Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold

The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.

The original petition failed due to two issues:

UK government misinterpreted what the petition is about and didn't really answered to what was being asked
early general elections canceled all ongoing petitions at the time

This attempt has a new, reworded petition to, hopefully, make it simple and clear enough to avoid any additional problems.

There are two thresholds for UK petitions:

10 000 signatures: official government response
100 000 signatures: petition will be considered for debate in Parliament

Here is a video from Ross Scott (the main organizer of the Stop Killing Games initiative) about this update.

34 comments

Can't wait for PirateGames to shit on this one too and be a great big Blizzard shill again.
- Dude you don't get it, the AAA devs will literally go bankrupt if they have to waste a fraction of their profits to do the bare minimum!!! Why won't anyone think of the children?????
  
  That's the funny thing about all of this it wouldn't cost the company a single penny. All they'd have to do is open source their code that's it.
  
  That too would have costs associated with it. Nothing is free when you do it at work, but it's reasonable to impose those kinds of costs to ensure the products they make meet a base standard.