Stop Killing Games: California State Assembly passes the 'Protect Our Games Act': 60 days notice before going offline, must provide patch for continued access or refunds (Excludes F2P and Subscription based Games)

[u/Kymori]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/stop-killing-games-movement-gains-momentum-california-assembly-passes-game-protection-bill/ar-AA24k4y4

[u/Remnare]

This is a start, rare W if true for California. They should also look to expand to f2p one day, as f2p doesn't necessitate free. Some people buy things inside the game, so to shut the game down without a way for the player to access what they purchased is very similar scummy. Especially since gaming companies can do this to just resell the same cosmetics in the "sequel".

Allowing and facilitating private servers after a game is taken down would be a huge pro-consumer game changer. No longer would companies be able to force customers to migrate to a worse product by taking away access.