'Stop Killing Games' Campaign

[Zema Bus]

You may have heard about the 'Stop Killing Games" campaign by now, I saw this on FB:

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Louis Rossmann did a series of videos on this topic.

[Grogan]

I'm a bit disappointed, I watched all 3 of those videos and he really didn't say much about the topic. He always spends some time talking about himself (which I don't mind, he's interesting) but most of the time was spent repeating admonishments to that Ross guy, who didn't want to carry the torch anymore. I do understand the topic though. Of course they are doing it so they can pull the plug on games rather than support them, and move everyone along to their next pile of rubbish, and also, so that you have no rights and no expectations.

To be fair, for online only games there has to be the expectation that eventually servers are going to get shut down. That's bullshit about "reputational harm" for letting the community run their own servers though. It doesn't matter what I think though, that IS their legal right and I don't think we're going to win that one.

A single player game though, that shouldn't ever stop working. Remove the DRM. Remove the online activation check. They should be compelled to allow the single player game to function standalone, if you can provide a compatible operating environment for it.

In the last video, I enjoyed those clips from when he was younger. Starting at 3:06 "Of course it doesn't feel the same, it's clean, which is more than I can say for you... you dirty, filthy, hipster piece of shit with your fuckin facial grease that you probably haven't cleaned off your phone since you goddamn bought it"

[Zema Bus]

I noticed he had a live stream going, he does that on weekends sometimes. I'll often put it on and listen while doing other things. I didn't catch this one until it was at the 4 hour mark, and now it's past 5 hours lol!

[Zema Bus]

Now he's eating dinner on the stream after trying to kill a mosquito

[Grogan]

I think I could live without that narcissistic indulgence. Live streaming his work with commentary is one thing, but just live streaming himself about the house is another

[Zema Bus]

To be fair he was mostly working on a project with a view of his screen on one side of the video, and of him on the other side

[Grogan]

Oh, well OK then, that sounds a lot better.