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Stop Killing Games

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[EU/UK] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.


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[–] [email protected] 35 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The guy who required a login for his game, allowing Microsoft to steal ownership from the earliest owners while he walked away a billionaire? That guy? That’s the guy talking about digital ownership?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What was that second point? I was an early buyer (before infdev) and I still have it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The second point is if you missed the window to "migrate" your account to a microsoft account, you don't have minecraft anymore. They just completely deleted your account and you are unable to play.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

This happened to me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

oh that sucks. have people in that group tried contacting support to regain access to the game?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Yeah and you can't, you missed the window, tough shit.

Paid copies of the game were taken away from people for the crime of "not migrating an account when we told them to". Either because they didn't play at that time but wanted to go back, because they didn't have access to the email / didn't read the one the account is registered on, or didn't bother with it.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

one of their best articles ever

[–] [email protected] 38 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yes notch is a dick but on the upside, they're at 1.3M signatures!

https://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I don't follow Minecraft drama. Why's he a dick?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Gathered that after reading more of the comments. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

FYI, you can link to a specific section of a Wikipedia article like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Personal_life

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, he had his stopped clock moment for 2025. What a shame. Shit, I used to really like that guy.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Notch is a POS, he just needs the PR.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

He's a bit of a tragic figure, terminally online dude who went down the alt right pipeline until he wouldn't publicly admit that the Nazis were bad. He used to openly support trans rights! What a mess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

im lucky that I didnt become a deranged alt right freak. I became an annoying leftist instead

[–] Lfrith 13 points 21 hours ago

Lot of rich people need to learn how to properly exit to wealthy retirement like Tom from MySpace did fading away. Don't be Notch and please don't become Zuckerberg or Musk. Just go away and leave people alone.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was definitely not a graceful fall. Hate to see it happen but, how can you be convinced against human rights? His beliefs must have been quite ephemeral to switch up like that.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had my own son radicalized by Tik Tok's algorithms. With some parental guidance he managed to "break loose", but no, there was nothing wrong or fleeting with his views before that happened imho.

Extremely scary to watch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

How did you manage? I feel like that's a bit hard to correct. I'm impressed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

He's autistic (level 2) so logic works if expressed clearly showing him that the ones he were influenced by weren't being honest/truthful. Also, still young enough to listen to his parents.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Add to that radicalization pipeline bit the fact that obscene wealth like what Notch came into tends to be extremely socially isolating and directly causes people to lose touch with reality. Not to be like "oh the poor billionaires," but having that kind of money literally causes mental illness. For their own good, no one should be allowed to have that kind of money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

no one should not be allowed to have that kind of money

I think there is a 'not' too much - or do I read it wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah I missed that one. When I was writing it I changed my wording from "they should not be allowed," to "no one should be allowed," and missed a word. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah I agree, he just didn't have anyone by him in real life reminding of reality and had several people online reminding him of delusions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Even if you disregard that, he fucking sold minecraft to microsoft. He is the biggest offender ever in terms of killing games.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Lets be honest... if someone walks up to you and offers 2 fucking billion dollars for a block game you made on the whim.... youd take the money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It still blows my mind that someone thought Minecraft was worth two billion dollars. ...in 2014. .......and they seemed to be mostly correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Mostly? Pretty sure Microsoft has seen s profit on that purchase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't he already rich, though? Once you're over, like, $10mm, you don't really need to work anymore.

And then when he took the money, I think he just squandered it on bullshit.

If someone handed me 2 billion dollars I'd probably be building trains and houses, or maybe something for the climate crisis. Not jerking off alone in a house full of candy. He's a shithead failure of a human, if that's all he's done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

As a millionaire i would definitely accept an offer to become a billionaire. When you already have enough for a carefree life, money becomes power instead and then you can exert your will on the world. I can definitely see how that is really tantalizing, especially nowadays where virtually everyone has an unspecified feeling of being powerless against the system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In the context of SKG, Minecraft seems pretty unkillable to me.

  • Solid single player experience
  • Vibrant ecosystem of people hosting their own servers

If Microsoft disappeared overnight, everyone could still play Minecraft.

I guess there is a login system, but back when I used to play MC, you could play offline with cracked copies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Also there's Luanti (formerly MineTest)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah uhhhh let's maybe not promote shit that Notch says.

[–] DebatableRaccoon 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't mean we should publicize every broken clock. There are plenty of working clocks we could highlight instead.

[–] DebatableRaccoon 5 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

Maybe so but the more big-name supporters of the concept of owning ones games, the better. Not to mention the juxtaposition of his other views from what I've been seeing from him adds to the absurdity of the concept of not keeping what you pay money for.

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