Official response from EU Commission after attending invite only party hosted by lobbyists, attended by Ubisoft and other corpos
Open letter from SKG addressing EU Commision (aka industry/lobbyist talking points)
https://x.com/StopKilingGames/status/2062131784926519424
Video from YongYea if you’d like to listen to the situation



“Support for all games cannot last forever.”
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Again and again and again… Sigh… Sadly I’m sure many of the comission will just believe that shit…
But then again, the big companies are obviously scared, that’s a good sign at least.
SKG isnt even asking for support to last forever. They have repeatedly been very clear about that.
I wrote a Python script that says “lol” last week.
50 years from now, it’ll still be runnable, and it’ll still say “lol”.
Unless I update it to say “Ubisoft sucks dick”.
If you don’t update it to say “Ubisoft sucks dick,” you don’t support games!
lol
lol
If you don’t update it I doubt that. We have computer programs that are 50 years old and are completely unable because the base computer changed so much
Ever heard of an emulator?
Ever written one? I did. Did you? So you know what you are talking about?
Well yes. Publishers of physical books absolutely cannot not put a piece of explosive inside their physical book, whose only point is to burn the book once said publisher claims it’s impossible to not set off the explosive after 25 years of “support”.
Neither games nor gamers don’t need “support”. What they need is to not actively be belittled, castrated and mutilated by publishers.
If this was done in the physical realm wirh equivalent tactics, there’d also be outrage.
That active modding and coding communities exist to keep older gamers working into the modern era is reason enough to show people just love games.