Handing online servers over to consumers could carry commercial or legal risks, she said, in addition to safety concerns due to the removal of official company moderation.

  • Goodeye8@piefed.social
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    5 hours ago

    I have to agree that killing online only games makes sense because they can’t be forced to run the server forever, not they can be forced to release the source code. But offline / solo / bots should keep working.

    We are not in agreement. It doesn’t make sense even for online games.

    The politicians statement is not what SKG is about. SKG is not trying to preserve every version of a game. It would be cool if that was also on the table, but that’s not the purpose of the initiative. SKG is concerned with keeping the game playable AFTER the publisher/developer has decided it’s not longer worth maintaining. At that point the online video game is no longer a dynamic service because it’s no longer updated nor maintained. And that means it absolutely could be viewed as a static product. The point she is making is completely irrelevant to the initiative and shouldn’t even be a point of discussion.