JackoftheVoid

Hi! Profound video on fraud. While I’m not a professional that can help in a proper capacity, I do have an idea about a loophole/runaround to submit to y’all to chew on: Historically, it seems the answer to unregulated laisez-faire capitals was to inject a little socialism in it to balance the scales. For example: abusive factories and railroads —> labor unions. Therefore... instead of suing for legal action (since your resources are likely a little limited in comparison to someone like EA), stage your own workaround. If you were to set up some form of community Kickstarter to offer to purchase those “fix it” codes, THEN they could be archived as a non-profit, co-op owned, public library. From there, if you can find developers willing to sign on to create viable server codes to accommodate the outdated ones, you could re-institute the playability of those games for those who own them. There’d be no way around a fee because the $$ to buy the repair code is a necessity (and maybe the server maintenance and upkeep, etc. can’t fix that) But much of the support or updates could come via a modding community similar to nexus. Then wouldn’t that fulfill your desire to turn their industry up on their heads, bring justice and playability back to the people’s property and (as long as it’s a non-profit library/museum). As long as they bought the product from the original company, then none of that co op idea would violate their “rights as a company.” Especially if the funding were done as a membership due (like a library card), instead of any direct property from their IP. What do do y’all think? Maybe a little more doable than legal fees, and by putting that as a non profit and organized as a public library/museum so it’s a little more protected (and in the hands of the consumers), it’s a bigger nut-slap to their corporate Live Service Structure than an out of court settlement. Especially if it is well-received.