1 million signatures could make killing video games illegal in the EU

A new European Citizens’ Initiative has launched to try and make it illegal for game publishers to render games useless to players. Should it succeed in getting 1 million signatures, the European Commission will have to consider making it law. One of the most frustrating things you can encounter as a gamer is when a publisher decides to kill one of your favourite games. This can happen for a number of reasons — licence agreements expire, server maintenance becomes too costly, end-of-life-strategies to push players towards new titles, etc. An increasing number of games rely on servers to run. If…

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