SomethingSilly

A compromise would require people to have a calm, nuanced discussion. The way certain creators have been attacked to an insane degree simply for disagreeing and refusing to apologise for not holding a popular opinion, makes me doubtful that that can happen. I know it's not everyone, but I can't imagine what people outside the community must think of gamers at the moment.

I don't know if SKG's requests are the best way to go about it, though. Servers cost money to run, if a game loses 80% of it's fanbase then where are they going to get the money to pay the bills to run the servers? I think a better way would have been to push for more legal support for people who build emulators for free, we don't necessarily need developers to do anything, that could potentially harm them, if there are better legal protections in place for people who are already willing to do it for free. This route also combats the issue of defunct tech, which leads to a loss of information as tech advances (think about things like cassettes, old gameboy cartridges, etc). I genuinely don't think that anyone in this movement stopped to talk to people already trying to preserve video games to see what would help them, and instead dumped this entirely on devs. It should be a team effort, but that requires nuance, discussion, and working to improve what we already have. Not rushing in blindly and demanding that video games devs do all the planning on preserving their games forever at their own expense. I mean, hell, their outline was so vague the UK govt responded to the petition before it even closed to say that they almost definitely wouldn't be changing consumer laws around this issue. I wish them luck, but I don't think they've come in at the right angle.