This is addressed directly in the FAQ: > If a company has designed a game with no thought given towards the possibility of letting users run the game without t

This is addressed directly in the FAQ: > If a company has designed a game with no thought given towards the possibility of letting users run the game without their support, then yes, this can be a challenging goal to transition to. If a game has been designed with that as an eventual requirement, then this process can be trivial and relatively simple to implement. Another way to look at this is it could be problematic for some games of today, but there is no reason it needs to be for games of the future. Presumably any laws resulting from these petitions would give a generous window for companies to catch up before going into force, like many new regulatory laws. Furthermore, as far as I can tell, based on quotes like: • "We understand some features can be impractical for an end user to attain if running a server only an end-user system." • "For extra demanding videogames that require powerful servers the average user will not have access to, the game will not be playable on the same scale as when the developer or publisher was hosting it." the proposal doesn't require that unofficially supporting a discontinued game be easy or inexpensive, just possible in some form.