It’s trivial in the grand scheme of things to release a localhost server to let games run offline. For the amount of work that goes into games already this is a drop in the bucket.

It’s also trivial if you know it’s a requirement at the start of the project.

So even if it does nothing for games out now, if it makes it a requirement going forward that alone would be a massive success all by it self.

Enable offline mode. That’s the very least they can do. These game, like how EA famously claim that it’s not possible for SimCity to run in offline mode and then soon release an offline mode, should be playable offline.

Enable private server/p2p multiplayer. This would make sure playing with friends is still possible after the server went down.

When games put DRM in them that requires a server

And I buy that game

And then they take away that server

I want my money back

Or for them to patch the game so it works

It’s not fucking hard to figure out

then don’t make single player games (or sections of games) require a server.

Its okay to stop running the servers. All gamers want is to have the stuff it takes to continue to enjoy the game after the companies are done.

It might get the EU to make a law.

At best we get fresh new EULA’s to click through on our way to play our game.

I’ve signed a lot of petitions over the years, and I’d sign this one too, but it’s pretty naive to think this will actually do anything useful.