[gryn]

> many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only

that's kinda the point, many users don't like having their single player game be online only because the devs thought it would give them more control.

seems like 'video games europe' is gearing up to lobby/influence the lawmakers to distort this initiative.

the bare minimum would be to ban these kind of things from describing themselves as products instead of a service in their marketing. no "Buy" or "Purchase", instead "Rent" or "Lease" possibly with a stated minimum guaranteed time online / expiration date.

EDIT: reminder, if you're from the EU and over the age of 18 it's still a good idea to sign the petition even though it passed the threshold since there could be invalid signatures (bots, underage people, etc ...) if the valid signatures are below the threshold after the verification is done this petition will get dropped.

[PaulKeeble]

The game that kicked this particular petition off was The Crew, a game that you could happily play single player which Ubisoft made always online purely for DRM reasons its a prime example of the abuse of power that legislators should be doing something ab0out.

[robertlagrant]

This isn't exactly an abuse of power - you can just not buy it. UbiSoft has transformed itself into a terrible, bloated company and it probably die soon, but the better way to do this is to have industry standards similar to PEGI that describe the game's future support, not to hit them with EU-specific regulations.

[m463]

> The bare minimum would be to ban these kind of things from describing themselves as products instead of a service.

I don't know if amazon kindle books "you are getting a license" wording has affected anything.

But what if you can't call them "games" anymore? Call it "time-limited entertainment"?

[Levitating]

>> many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only

> that's kinda the point, many users don't like having their single player game be online only because the devs thought it would give them more control.

I think the criticism isn't centered around single player games at all, but rather MMORPGs and the likes.

[maccard]

> that's kinda the point, many users don't like having their single player game be online only because the devs thought it would give them more control.

That’s asking developers to make different games. That’s not the same thing as “stop shitting down games like the crew”

[ykonstant]

OK, I signed it. hopefully I entered the correct postal code for my address; I always have to look up the code online.