Hi there, /v/irgin here. Would you be so kind, as to sign this petition?
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074
>What is it about?
I will try to keep this brief. Right now, you could buy a game with a single-player campaign, but in order to play the single player campaign you have to constantly be connected to the game companies server, and at any time, they can shut down those servers and loose access to the game. So you could pay 60 dollars for a game, and in one year, can't play it at all, as such you don't actually own "your" game, or in other words the games are designed with kill switches in mind. The petition, hopes that government will enforce companies to actually let you own your game. I should also mention that this isn't just in the UK, there is also a EU petition, and Ross Scott(the guy behind it) is also working in getting Australia and Brazil on board with their own petitions. Sadly, America is a lost cause.
>How would companies do that?
Well first of all, not releasing always online games, other solutions would be to remove the always online components, which has been done with Redfall for instance, they could provide the server so that players could host their own games, they could remove the online component, and leave the single player component alive, or something else.
>What about games that already are always online?
Will probably not be affected, though I am not sure about UK law. At least in the EU, when they forced Apple to have USB Port C on their phones, they didn't require all Iphones ever made, including the discontinued ones, to have USB Port C.
>Why should I care, we have more pressing matters?
I understand that in the grand scheme of things, immigration is more important than video games, all I am asking is to take 5 minutes out of your busy schedule, and sign the petition, not go to a protest. And who knows, maybe because it's such a non-issue, that the government will automatically pass it, in order to pretend that they did something, instead of tackling more serious issues like immigration, and if it isn't this, it would be some other proposal.
Even if you don't play video-games, this could cause a domino effect in other industries, like heart-rate monitors being always online, and they can suddenly get turned off permanently, when the company releases a new heart-rate monitor to force consumers to buy the new one.
>Didn't I already sign this?
There was a petition last year, parliament responded, but misinterpreted the petition so much, that the Petition Committee asked them again to respond with a better answer, but then elections happened, parliament got dissolved and all petitions got closed. Hopefully this time we will get an actual answer, and the petition has been worded to be even clearer than last time.
>Why aren't YOU doing it?
I am not a citizen of the UK, though I am in the EU and have signed the equivalent petition, and also asked some of my friends to also do it:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
All I can do, is kindly ask the residents of /brit/ to sign the UK petition.
If you have any other questions, I will gladly answer them to the best of my abilities, you could also watch the videos by Scott
>Stop Killing Games: UK Edition
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=NQnZ91mUB0E
Gives a general petition of Stop Killing Games and the situation in the UK
>Giant FAQ on The European Initiative to Stop Destroying Games!
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=sEVBiN5SKuA
While it is about the EU petition, it does answer a lot of questions regarding game preservation and how such a petition could affect the industry