3w ago

UK gov responds to the newer Stop Killing Games petition - no plans to amend UK consumer law

petition.parliament.uk Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold

The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32213902

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This response reads as though they continue to not understand the problem.

Have any of the UK petitions ever had a response that wasn’t just “nah fuck off lol”?

They only got 13k signatures this time? I wonder if PirateSoftware, who I have very quickly lost respect for (like literally over the course of just a few days), had anything to do with this?
- He definitely has had some negative impact on it considering almost every time stop killing games news pops up someone parrots his already debunked points.
- A far shorter time span, and this applies only to the UK, not the EU. It got a (bad) government response, so it achieved the intended effect.
- That guy truly is a knob. I dropped him for his take on Stop Killing Games, it was such an obviously brain-dead take...
  
  @CancerMancer not to mention self-motivated. Didn't he release a live service game soon after taking that stance?
- I'm out of the loop, what did he do?
  
  his take on the petition was uneducated and seemed to stem mostly from a pro-industry perspective. it was like he misunderstood how government petitions in europe works and based all his criticism on that misunderstanding.
  basically the point he missed is that these petitions don't become laws as written, but are put up for discussion. highlighting a problem in a niche where it is easy to understand usually ends up highlighting a broader issue.
  Thor took this flawed understanding and applied his substantial industry knowledge to it, which led him to the conclusion that games would be impossible to make if this petition won out because it would force companies to keep the servers up forever, which is not at all what the petition is about.
  he then refused to back down from this position when people tried to explain it better.

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