But, why? I’m not defending their actions, but why do their actions have anything to do with you enjoying it?
iamthetot
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refundsEnglish
5·18 hours agoStop Killing Games initiative has been targeting what they consider a winnable legal case, not necessarily the best ethical one. So, as the other poster said, they are not targeting subscription based games as much or at all on the basis that those are up front about the fact that your access is lost without a subscription.
I do, personally, wish to see all games playable forever but I fully understand why they are strategizing the way that they are.
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refundsEnglish
2·18 hours agoHow do your two sentences not contradict each other? What do you think end of life plan means? Stop Killing Games explicitly wants games to be playable forever.
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refundsEnglish
2·21 hours agoBut those studios could still provide tools necessary to keep the games playable after they no longer want to support it.
No one is asking for laws that force studios to foot the bill for indefinite support. But games don’t have to built in such a way that access can be entirely removed at the whim of a dev or publisher.
Lots of MMOs have private servers already. It’s not a revolutionary ask.
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refundsEnglish
13·21 hours agoNo, the point of the Stop Killing Games initiative is to make games buy once, be playable forever somehow. If a game releases that is dependent on server infrastructure, the studio should have an end of life plan. That could look like many things, including releasing the tools necessary for anyone else to spin up a server.
Interesting. From a quick look, seems like it only applies to some borrowed words, nothing native to the language?
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•'Abhorrent' step-incest porn to be banned with up to five years in prisonEnglish
7·22 hours agoIt sounds like that was not actually illegal in the UK, based on the article. However, I am not a UK resident nor expert in porn law.
Hey, fart jokes are funny.
What languages use an apostrophe for plurals?
No? I wasn’t making a joke, humans can stretch like that.
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cats@lemmy.world•This brave lil goof is giving me another chanceEnglish
10·1 day agoThe common misconception that cats are cold hearted and solitary creatures is just utterly unfounded in my personal experience… Love them, and they will love you.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Woman who stole $70K in grandparent scam should get house arrest, lawyers argueEnglish
11·2 days agoI hate scammers, and I’m not arguing she’s innocent. However, I wouldn’t lose sleep over her serving her sentence from home. She is non violent, as far as I can tell, and she was not the mastermind.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Dragon Age: Inquisition Servers Going Offline Later This MonthEnglish
5·2 days agoWould be nice if they released tool or code necessary for anyone else to spin up a server if they do desired, though.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•The creators of the NZXT Flex PC service will pay $3,45 million for defrauding customers.English
1·2 days agoJuuust in case this wasn’t sarcasm, or anyone reading it doesn’t realize it’s sarcasm: much of the world uses commas instead of periods for a decimal separator.
But, you can do that.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•The creators of the NZXT Flex PC service will pay $3,45 million for defrauding customers.English
4·2 days agoI believe it is a Russian website, and translated into English secondly.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How Do you keep your services updated?English
1·2 days agoYes, I usually do that after I check all the services are running okay.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How Do you keep your services updated?English
1·2 days agoNot running anything that I’ve had to alter compose files. Also never had change nginx configs. Maybe I’m just running particularly stable stuff.
I usually read update notes yes, but I’d be lying if I said I was always thorough.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How Do you keep your services updated?English
2·2 days agoWhoops, I forgot that the alias includes a pull for the latest versions.
















At least according to the article, the law does not appear to address that.