A petition is calling for the EU’s video game license publishers to preserve video games when support ends.
More than 200,000 European citizens want to pass a law so the EU’s video game license publishers will be forced to preserve their favourite games.
For some video games, a player needs to connect through the internet to the publisher directly to play the game off their servers.
The petition, called Stop Killing Games, says that when publishers decide to sever the connection to their servers, they “proceed to destroy all working copies of the game”.
“This practice is effectively robbing customers of their purchases and makes restoration impossible,” the petition reads.
The rules would apply to video games that “sell game assists or features” through microtransactions.
Vjalicin said his group sees this idea of killing games as a “consumer rights issue” that needs to be resolved. »
