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Stop Killing Games' proposals for game preservation "prohibitively expensive", major publishers insist
Last week, Stop Killing Games - the consumer-driven initiative demanding games publishers leave their titles in a playa…
Yet while the exact number of legitimate petition signatures remains unclear at present, it seems the threat of its success - and a potential parliamentary hearing - has spooked video games publishers enough to spur them into action. In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create. A previous government response, mandatory for any parliamentary petition that surpasses 10K signatures, said: "There are no plans to amend UK consumer law on disabling video games".
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