Well that's a weird way to phrase it.

When a car or appliance is no longer in production commercial by a company generally a person can still find third party suppliers or manufacturers that provide replacement parts, or someone might step in and manufacture a specific part if demand is heigh enough.

Why cannot the same apply here? Game developers/publishers should be archiving the game servers and making sure anyone can spin up their own servers, or choose to allow the game to run without the servers.

I dont think anyone here is asking that the company that developed the game needs to continuously support the product after its end of life, but allow others to be able to freely support it themselves.

The way I see it now, corporations are going to keep producing games, applications, appliances, cars, machinery that requires servers to operate and a active subscription. Once those servers are shut off your cars heated seats for example will stop to function.

I know this was just about games, but these politicians are so short sighted they basically are allowing all the above.

The Commission cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially.

Reading this I see the following:

The commission cannot propose a legal obligation to keep an appliance, machine, car, tractor working after a company chooses go stop providing/selling it commercially.

Look like as soon as those heated seat subscription servers go down you won't be able to reactive your cars seats. Or any product that requires proprietary/closed servers to function.

Reading the article AMD pushed a update and that update removed a feature that was once supported. There was also no mention that the update would remove said feature.

I dont know, but to me its like buying a car with heated seats. Then getting a update pushed, and those seats being disabled with no way to activate them. Or like having your old iphone performance artificially slowed through updates.

The big question is was this accidental in disabling this feature, or was it calculated. And if it was calculated why was there no announcement. The whole thing smells IMO.

Long story short, the hardware supports it, but the software disabled it.

I'm loving the spreadsheet!!

I always assumed just like a cellphone bill the price you "enter in with" is the "agreed price" and that contract can't change unless you cancel or switch to another plan.

Could we also do this for ISPs, so many fees ranging from rental fees, upgrading fees and just generally shitty pricing and shitty deals

Look at that collaboration! You can feel it on the back of your neck!

I dont know, lenovo seems to only support their stuff for two years before they end of life it.

Should these not be depreciating in value, or is that depreciation just not keeping up with inflation at this point.