For Once, The EU Has A Good Idea

For once, the EU has a good idea

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

Hot take: to prevent extreme vitriol, presidential candidates should do recreational activities together, such as golf

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Ah yes - the lycanthropic equivalent of the uncanny valley

What animash character has you like this

New idiom: "bro's thoughts are controlled by a mouse in a hamster wheel" - aka, You are repeating yourself, stop being a spammy filibuster you goober!

Does anyone else find it odd that Hungary has been forgotten by the media when it comes to that Boris storm ravaging Europe? Like, Poland, Czechia, Austria, and Romania have been all over the news, but not Hungary, even tho Hungary is in the middle between the others