By your powers combined, I am... the British Colonies!

Oh look, you cite FBI data showing that blacks (15% of the population) commit 47.3% of homicides. And that whites (57% of the population) commit 47.8% of homicides.

Why are you posting data that is clearly racist towards minorities in the U.S.? Is it because your racism prevented you from crunching the numbers?

The main aim of Stop Killing Games is to ensure the practice of rug-pulling eventually comes to an end. They are not trying to save MMOs, for example.

Moreover they don't demand that every game currently on the market comply with open-sourcing requirements: at a minimum, companies always have the option of simply providing customers with adequate notice before shutdown. Open-sourcing the server would be nice, but it's hardly the only way to protect consumers' interests. Scott has, for example, suggested game boxes being marked with an estimated expiry date for online service functionality.

But most importantly: because this is about future games, not the present, the market has time to change. If studios and publishers are designing their games with a fair EOL in mind, then they can make decisions from the get-go to avoid licensing dependencies that they won't be able to release in a possible 'afterlife' version of the game. As suggested by your example of GameSpy in C&C: Generals, when a commercial dependency is crucial to a game's success, it tends to be a client-side library, but typically the problematic dependencies aren't crucial; they're e.g. add-ons for Unity or Unreal that the studio bought to save time. In a world with SKG laws, the providers of these dependencies aren't going to be a stagnant target either—demand for compliant libraries will motivate development of open-source versions.

Interestingly, the will for doing this does exist among game developers; they just need the institutional support from legislation to twist the arms of the studios and publishers. Ross Scott has talked to a lot of devs who are burnt out from having their projects cancelled, leaving them with huge gaping holes in their resumes and portfolios where they've spent years on unreleased projects that are stuck under NDA. In general they tend to see SKG as a path to ensuring the games that do see the light of day aren't also scrapped, which would erode their work histories even further. (Apparently it also just plain feels bad to have your work erased from history. Shocking, I know.)

Hmm. Especially in light of that, I think my comment still stands. :)

...1080 pixel monitors...

And you think you're going to be a tech journalist? Yeah, I guess that tracks.

Fear not! It's entirely possible the category was chosen by an AI. Editorial automation would probably reduce the error rate here.

Call me when it works with all phone apps and all SMS apps and all contacts apps.

I will, but will you take the call?

Hence the third sentence in my post.

They hate government meddling when they don't control government. Just like they hate government spending when they don't get to choose where the money is spent.

Correct on both counts. This is known as the concept of Government by the people. Obviously, it's a concept lost in today's world, but it's a worthy principle to work back toward.

What's a good portmanteau of gigolo and mosquito? Gigolito? I like Mosquigolo.

It sounds like assumptions are being made about the cause. Gut bacteria have been shown to have a direct influence on mental health. How do they know this affect isn't something akin to that?

It means "you CAN eat a huge variety of things."

Or, you should eat a variety of things, rather. Right?

But, you do own one.

Not only that, but the cache-ing is happening in RAM -- not directly to the disc. I'm actually very skeptical this actually works outside of their contrived conditions.

Uhh... Richard M. Stallman Political Action Committee?