Not only games. Goes for all electronics as well.

Sick of supporting your 'old phones'? You're required by law to disclose all binary blobs as source code to let somebody else pick it up the slack.

Feeling like bricking old Kindles? Fine, but users must be able to install alternative OS on your old device.

Not providing software updates for your TV anymore after you removed features? That's your right, but so is the right of the effing device owner to install something else on it.

And it's not just consumer electronics. (caugh John Deere caugh).

I like it. If the publisher no longer sells/supports the full game as purchased, then they no longer to get to complain about people pirating it.

I don't like instantly throwing it public domain, that's the wrong license to use. I think Creative Common CC BY-NC-SA would be more appropriate. (Credit the original, no commercial use, and any modified/redistributed version must follow same license).

This will prevent xbox from taking all the old PlayStation games, stealing an emulator, and selling them under game pass to people that don't know those games are freely available.

I'd also add the game must be available as an individual 1-time purchase. If it's only available as a bundle or subscription service (like game pass), that doesn't count.

This is one of the points that a French MEP brought up during the meeting. If this is pursued it could as a side effect open up space for digital "orphaned works" which would be fantastic.

Entire Linux gaming happened because one guy wanted to play Nier Automata on it. Don't underestimate some one guys.

Even crazier, he doesn't even particularly like it. He just didn't think it should become vaporware.

I saw a random youtuber actually figure this out.

Get banned from Prirate Software's chat speed run, Any%.

He made an account, joined, and just politely asked what Thor thought of the recent SKG EU Parliament hearings.

Total Elapsed Time to Ban: Approximately 9 seconds.

Thor then muttered about not wanting to hear anything from any SKG assholes.

Dude is a literally terminal stage narcissist.

The first second generation Blizzard employee!

He says in his videos "I'm just some guy who wants to play video games, I don't know how to lead a movement. But uh, here we are I guess!" He's spent a massive amount of time and effort on it, when he just happened to end up the spokesperson. Incredibly cool guy.

Yeah, if you think they're reacting positively to this wait til you see how they react to EA cracking open their checkbook. Oh, wait, that one will happen behind closed doors.

Some mobile games already work that way where they claim to be f2p but it‘s just a demo of the actual game with ingame purchases for the other levels. However annoying, it‘s not flat out scamming customers like shutting down servers months after release is. Perhaps devs should still be required to label it as a demo just in case though.

undue burden on small developers

Uuh, more often than not, the small devs already make their games indefinitely playable and preservable, just out of a love for the medium.

No actual artist wants their work to have an expiry date.

Legal enforcement is only needed for the passionless big publishers that shutter games just to funnel players into purchasing their latest releases.

It's mentioned in the parliament presentation. Only a small minority of game publishers engage in this BS, but it's ALL the big ones, meaning the problem is experienced by the vast majority of consumers.

We've had the technology since stone ages, quit lying about this so called burden. All it takes is to not be greedy.