[Telaneo]

> No reasonable consumer would assume perpetual access, either.

I expect perpetual access to my game the same way I expect access to my books. Most of my multiplayer games can still be played without involving a clown server somewhere (either by hosting one myself, or by playing over LAN). This is somewhat skewed by me not having bought many of the offending games, but it's clearly not an impossible feat. It's not even a big ask. And yet it's still not done.

> Steam shuts down tomorrow, guess what? None of your games are working without a third party workaround. Even if you had them installed.

The mere existence of that workaround means I still get to play my game. There aren't any workarounds for most of the games Stop Killing Games care about, since developing them requires enormous amounts of man-hours reverse engineering, while the devs could do the same in a fraction of the time (or at the very least give people a head start!).

[ianburrell]

I have books that link to online content. I've had one that had printable workbook that that no longer worked because the site had disappeared.

Are you going pay the extra money to the developers to keep the servers running? What will people choose, the 5 year support for game that might never play again, or the forever support? Game companies will raise prices, by a lot, if forced to maintain or release games.

[Telaneo]

The web archive kind of solves this problem.

Beyond that, I think the authors of your books are idiots for not making whatever content they have online not just a bundled part of the book (throw in a CD or thumb drive or whatever, not my problem. Solve it however you want. Just™ actually solve it). I've had the same happen with a quiz book I found, which had the answers online, with just a QR code in the book, which then lead to a 404 page. They could have just printed a few extra pages of answers in the back, but they didn't, and I mock them for it. They're fucking morons. Thankfully quiz questions tend to be easily googleable.

> Are you going pay the extra money to the developers to keep the servers running?

No, because you don't need to do that to have a playable game.

> Game companies will raise prices, by a lot, if forced to maintain or release games.

Good thing they don't need to do that then.