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This is a bit of a bummer but I hope that there would be a next partition for it again that would have a better outcome.

It's not needed. AAA games are dead walking, and the new generation of game developers have grown up in the age of dead games, they're gonna change it

@Aader I don't understand, this partition is mainly for games that'll cease to exist after their servers shut down, there are people who would still want to have the game they bought be still playable after publishers decide they don't want to support their game anymore.

The current generation is obsessed with preservation. It will be the norm by sheer numbers

The main issue this initiative attempted to address is stoping companies from attaching a game to a server, destroying access on termination, and intentionally making the game and all related assets impossible to preserve for all paying cutomers. I've been folowing this for a while. It's a David versus Goliath fight. The most important thing I've learned is that consumer rights are a joke.

This is the guy who made the partition for the games and his summary.


@JayMark what does "is stoping companies from attaching a game to a server" mean?

The game is run in crucial part from company hardware or company leased hardware. This allows the game to be firewalled once the company pulls the plug. Because nobody can ever have a working copy of the game they paid for unless the company releases it or has an end of life plan.

The part of the game installed on your hardware is mostly the software that allows you to connect and interface with the game server. So even if you have a disc copy, you don't have a copy of the game, you have a copy of what is essentially server access software. *My understanding*

The Crew is a very good example of this and is why Ross went hard when they shut it down.

Whoops I messed up, it didn't end last month but it will this month and it seems to be close to the 1 million threshold, as it's currenty 973,721 right now .