The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games

…l is announced. There is no law today stopping companies from doing so. We can play games from the 1970s, we can play multiplayer games from the 1990s but many others not even a decade old now are lost forevermore. This is unacceptable. --- Companion video by the author, Ross Scott: "The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games" - link to this video --- EDIT: it is quite disheartening to see software engineers in this forum defending the practice and saying it is impossible to patch an online-…

For extra context, you can watch Ross Scott's videos about his campaign to stop games being killed. Original video with all the different avenues he's trying: link to this video The one specifically about this initiative: link He's done smaller update videos on how it's been progressing on his channel if you want additional info.

…of YouTube. He's also been running a series called "Dead Game News" and that's how Stop Killing Games was born. The other organizer, Damian, is a real-deal neckbeard dev and has pretty much done it all from BASIC on 8-bit micros to theorem provers and from video games to cryptography audits. Here's the original intro to Stop Killing Games by Ross: link to this video And here's a subsequent FAQ: link Related discussion( link ) P.S. had to edit the title a tiny bit as it was a few chars over limit.…

Maybe it was the one called "The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games". Check timestamp 24:55 (&t=1495s) link to this video

SKG organizer here. Something like this CA legislation was our "worst case scenario, everything else failed, at least we could do this much, we've compromised on everything" goal. That is to say, now opponents can't push us to compromise to that level and our worst case scenario in case we pass anything at all is looking better. We're really happy this is happening because it changes the Overton window for us and makes our case stronger and easier to argue for, as you say. A lot of change has been happening in the past few months and even weeks with regards to the market and legislative situation around the problematic of SKG and while you can't ever fully attribute something, we hope that i…