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I see. Ross Scott, leader of StopKillingGames, seems to look down on politics, polititians, and the law a lot in his video to sign up for his petition. And Thor from Pirate Software saw that as disingenuous and gross. As well as criticizing the ShopKillingGames site for being extremely vague.

I, as a grammatologist, understand that Ross wants to get as many gamers, who are consumers, as possible to sign up for his petition. This is probably the reason why he belittles politicians, antagonizes game publinher, and use natural language on his petition website.
However, from the creator or the game developer's perspective, both him and the language used on his site, seems disingenuous. The website, which is https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci , says:Require video games sold to remain in a working state when support ends.which is unrealistic for online games like League of Legends, FF14, etc.
Even if it was possible, this will hurt small developers making new online games more than big publishing companies who can afford to make the online game for both single player and multiplayer to begin with.

If Ubisoft had marketed "The Crew" as a single player game with online functionalities, then revoking the game from your Library without notice would have been a problem. However, as much as everyone hates Ubisoft, they had marketed "The Crew" as an Online game ever since its release in 2014 and have been servicing the server for 10 years!! Usually, online games does not last for 10 years! There were less than 100 players for this very dead MMO game when Ubi pulled its life support plugs.

So yeah, I think the petition is not only an overkill knee-jerk reaction to a dead MMO game, but like what Pirate Software said, signing this initiative can be detrimental to the gaming community as a whole.

RE: https://kawane.misskey.online/notes/a9qkjahsh5