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The entire point of this campaign is to make the companies think about these kinds of decisions before making the game. Imagine if your fridge cut out after tw
by worble 3y ago
The entire point of this campaign is to make the companies think about these kinds of decisions before making the game.
Imagine if your fridge cut out after two years because the company went bankrupt, would you really just accept "Oh well, it was designed that way! It's far too complicated to expect the company who made it in the first place to plan around that happening, that's just the way the industry works."
It's absolute madness that games are just kind of expected to die simply because its not a physical good.
- slg 3y agoThat is a silly analogy. Fridges don't have an ongoing costs to the manufacturer. To be the equivalent of games, the fridge would have to come with an implicit promise that the manufacturer will pay for the electricity use of the fridge. You would then effectively be arguing that the manufacturer is obligated to send you a free generator if they went bankrupt.
- badsectoracula 3y agoThe site's FAQ makes clear that they are not asking for the developer to provide ongoing support. Also the comparison you make isn't really accurate since the fridge didn't rely on a power generator by the manufacturer in the first place.
- slg 3y agoThe point is that games already rely on ongoing support. I admit my analogy isn't perfect, but I was trying to work off your analogy which completely ignores why these games break. It isn't directly because the developer went bankrupt. It is because the developer stopped providing a service that they previously provided for free.