It's amazing what a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they're no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.
The whole thing is a bit dry, as parliamentary committees tend to be, but the conversation is interesting. Consultant Daniel Ondruška, for instance, said the Stop Killing Games movement "is not trying to be unreasonable," and isn't seeking eternal online support or retro reactivation for games that have already been shut down—just requirements to keep it from happening in the future.
"Games that were developed 20 years ago still function," Ondruška said. "Games that were developed three years ago, as it was mentioned before, don't. It's a design decision. It's a business decis...
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