Gamers petition EU to preserve video games

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GIANNI: Hi I’m Gianni Di Giovanni

KYLE: and I’m Kyle Pauletto

GIANNI: Welcome to Walkthrough, SIFTER’s weekly recap on the biggest news in video games. 

‍KYLE: European gamers want the EU to pass a law to preserve online games, Bungie sacks 220 developers and will lose their independence, and a poisoned mod for a racing sim caused Disney to be hacked.

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‍KYLE: A group of video game activists are proposing a new law for the European union that would stop developers from permanently taking games offline once their popularity drops.

It becomes inevitable that the servers eventually get shut off, they cost money to maintain, but games like Ubisoft’s The Crew, which had a playerbase of at least 12 million when it was shut down earlier this …