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UK petition: require publishers to NOT shut down games that people bought with their money (check comments for non-UK citizen's options) (petition.parliament.uk)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In the olden days, online games didn't have servers run by the publisher, they came with a separate program users would run to host their own server. Things like Minecraft still work that way, although I think there are servers run by Microsoft too now. For some games, this will be more complicated than others, but it's not impossible.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

And if it were impossible (or infeasible), they shouldn’t be able to sell you a perpetual license knowing that it will expire when they take down the servers. If they are selling it as a service, there needs to be a minimum length of service specified. If the game is rendered unplayable before that date, the customer should be entitled to a refund.

As it is right now, you buy these games with a hidden expiration date. You could buy The Crew as late as December 14th, 2023 with no way of knowing you only had 4 months to play it. Those people don’t receive a refund.