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EU Citizen's initiative to pass legislation to stop game publishers disabling games we paid for
(www.stopkillinggames.com)
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I love the idea, but I can’t see it actually working. Developers would just sell even more games as subscriptions instead of selling licenses, regardless of any interactive online content or lack thereof. (Think of EA’s 2013 release of SimCity with always-on DRM, for example.) Then when they want to shut their servers down, they just stop selling subscriptions and wait until the last one expires.
The trick is to make it possible to host your own servers. Just like Counter Strike.
And it's exactly what the EU wants.
I think that's fine, tbh. Not as many customers will pay $80+ for a subscription. Then companies that sell games with more ethical business models will be more competitive, too.