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This is self explanatory; to all who do not support the idea of ownership, there shall be no more funding, regardless of their game's quality.
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buy from GOG, avoid single player games which require internet connection or 3 party launchers.
Repost from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1ugzirg/stoppayinggames/
Should I feel bad for assuming any company's name that ends in "group" probably do some heinous shit
joke on you im playing retro games!!!!
EDIT: but no seriously playing retro games is a great alternative then playing what's new
NES nerver die
Retro ps2 era or lower?
Lower
This is pretty much every company that publishes games. So we just don’t buy / play games ? We want real change we need to push for more physical releases with game on disc. On top of that we need to push for more single player experiences. This way no matter the licenses agreement I can still boot the games
Going back as far as the mid 90s I recall seeing verbiage in the software agreement that I didn’t own the software. And they had the right to refuse my access without notice But because the software is on the disc I can still boot it to this day
I don’t expect companies to hold servers for the rest of time so I can redownload my game. What I ask for is a physical copy.
We were barely 1.3 million that bothered to sign a petition, and you want to convince a meaningful amount of people to give up games from 95% of publishers? Good luck lol.
I figure this battle is lost so I started hoarding and archiving everything i come across that works/can work offline
Kinda telling that Valve aren't on here. They also only sell a license to play a game, not the game.
Well technically and legally you always buy a license even with a game on physical media.
Any media you buy is a license because you're only buying a copy, not the original.
Watch this by the guy who started Stop Killing Games. Then you can stop parroting the corporate wet dream that we don't own stuff we buy.
Well in this aspect gog is the best
I've been doing this for about 15 years and it hasn't made a difference. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to change anything except keeping ourselves from getting burned
Shouldn't it be #VoteWithYourWallet?
Why not both? #StopPayingGames is awkward, why not #StopRentingGames or #StartOwningGames
I would like a law that says the publisher/owner/digital store has to remove any server pings and anti-cheat through a standalone update that can be shared and downloaded once they abandon support. This would go for games and any other digital media, alternatively they would have to offer a refund.
I believe thatbis part ofnthe Stop Killing Games platform.
This is the movement. It is time to take gaming back from for profit studios who want us to have zero rights to what we purchase.
2K shut down Battleborn, I am still pissed.
I don't even remember the last game I bought that required an internet server. If I can't host a local game or private server for multi-player, I'm not interested. Of course, I only buy maybe one game a year, and it's never anything current these days.