discussion Stop Killing Games

[Lucumo]

It's a good cause. However, consumers could also just stop being stupid and stop buying into that stuff. I only buy DRM-free and everything I've ever bought can still be played.

 

[Runescape771]

These gaming companies have long wanted their customers to be brain-dead plain buyers. It's been a long time since I stopped buying their products

 

[Bleed1Exile😈]

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[User_80256]

You don't have to buy such games, although the most rational option is to download them on torrents.

 

[jbk304]

Gov's have started to take note of this campaign which is good. It comes from a good place.

 

[SweetGrapes]

Yeah, I saw the video a couple of days after release. Never heard of the guy before it got recommended to me by YouTube (imagine that!). Very sympathetic cause, but sadly, I don't see it having any real effect .

 

[Skrotum]

There is a new video of Ross and there is now a European Citizens' Initiative. So if you are European and you like your consumer rights, you might want to support it.

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[User_111574]

I download everything for free, via torrents. I don't care about the problems of the game business.

 

[Skrotum]

I download everything for free, via torrents.

It has even consequences for you. Because if the online requirement for single player games get more widespread you won't be able to torrent anything. So it is a trend you can stop as European.

 

[User_111574]

It has even consequences for you. Because if the online requirement for single player games get more widespread you won't be able to torrent anything. So it is a trend you can stop as European.

I have not encountered any problems. By the way, I use exclusively pirated versions of operating systems and feel very comfortable. Buy games or Windows? Don't make me laugh. The laws of North America and the European Union don't bother me in the slightest. My country is out of their jurisdiction.

 

[Karamchad]

king behavior from a true gamer

 

[Skrotum]

My country is out of their jurisdiction.

Doesn't matter if in a dystopian future only games with effective online DRM exists. But if you are out of EU jurisdiction, then you can't support directly anyway.

 

[ErzuzB]

There is a new video of Ross and there is now a European Citizens' Initiative. So if you are European and you like your consumer rights, you might want to support it.

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I signed it a day after is was up.

I download everything for free, via torrents. I don't care about the problems of the game business.

I have not encountered any problems. By the way, I use exclusively pirated versions of operating systems and feel very comfortable. Buy games or Windows? Don't make me laugh. The laws of North America and the European Union don't bother me in the slightest. My country is out of their jurisdiction.

This partition doesn't concern you, that is true, but the overall issue should be.
Yes, you pirate game, I do too, I only bought a few games in my life.
But, this fights an ever growing problem in the gaming industry and pirating games and making cracks don't work for every game and in the future many more games might have similar problems if the publishers can do what they want.

So see it this way, if this initiative comes true, game companies will be forced to make games playable offline, which allows the making of a crack or at least runnable on custom servers, which can be pirate servers.
In the end every "online-only" game will finally be piratable.

 

[kirito99]

There is an easy solution to this, stop buying games from companies like Ubisoft.
They've been doing their anti consumer bullshit for many years at this point and yet people still expect them to change for the better.. they won't.

Easier said than done, it happens every year with all the FIFA, COD, 2K, etc. Always the same game with different stuff added and the fans will buy it regarless

 

[SegmentCoalescing]

Easier said than done, it happens every year with all the FIFA, COD, 2K, etc. Always the same game with different stuff added and the fans will buy it regarless

Then they get what they deserve.
I am an FPS player and I enjoy COD but I haven't bought any since the original Modern Warfare 3. I have however played the more recent ones on free weeks/weekends and they're fun games..
Definitely not worth their cost though.

Especially because the games only get one year of "support" (Which is spent on Warzone that is totally uninteresting to me and bug fixes due to rushed development.) and then you're expected to give the greedy asshole Bobby Kotick another €70-80. Fuck that.

 

[kirito99]

Then they get what they deserve.
I am an FPS player and I enjoy COD but I haven't bought any since the original Modern Warfare 3. I have however played the more recent ones on free weeks/weekends and they're fun games..
Definitely not worth their cost though.

Especially because the games only get one year of "support" (Which is spent on Warzone that is totally uninteresting to me and bug fixes due to rushed development.) and then you're expected to give the greedy asshole Bobby Kotick another €70-80. Fuck that.

True, but that 'what they deserve' doesn't do anything, they will keep buying them regardless.