I know you guys might not find the idea of indulging in social movements enticing, but there has been this initiative recently that I believe pushes for a benefit for most of us.
Lately Games as a Service have become quite the norm in this day and age, and it's a very common trend for these games to not let players access the game's content any longer once End of Service arrives. Even if you bought a physical copy of it, there is no way to access these games any longer since they required connection to the servers to play them.
This pledge would be in order so that the EU provides consumers the right to be able to still access these games, allowing users to host their own instances of them, in the case a company or developer group decides to announce End of Service. It would allow a decentralization similar to mastodon 's infrastructure, where if one instance is shutdown, users are able to host their own servers, and the products they bought wouldn't be rendered useless.
I normally believe most users have to do the right thing and not purchase games that they'd be sure these kind of things would happen. But given the tracking record of the EU, bringing back replaceable batteries and making USB-C standard, I don't think this isn't that bad of an idea.
If you think this is a good way to help videogames in general, here are some links you might find interesting:
FAQ:
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faqThe initiative:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/homeThe amount of signatures that are required for this to be taken into consideration by the EU parliament is 1 million, and it also requires certain thresholds to be met. ie: it requires 7 countries of the EU to reach a certain amount of signatures.
This can be tracked here:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/homehttps://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/Anyhow, if mods feel like this kind of post may clash a bit with the culture of the board, I don't mind!
May you all have a nice day!~
