Seriously—has anything quite like this ever happened before? Millions of people showing up to say one thing: We want to play. Not with dollars (which some might even call easier or more passive), but with deliberate, individual action. A signature. A raised hand. A principled stand. That alone is astonishing. But the fact that it’s popular, too? That says even more!

Gamers are versatile, capable and ready champions. Most of the time, it is for causes other than our own personal IRL ones. We spread our time and spend it in and among many fictional worlds which tantalize us. Gamers— It’s time we direct just a little of that boundless energy, that organizing genius we lend to raids, marathons, mods, and campaigns… toward something that’s ours to defend. Digital doesn’t mean disposable!

A game that can no longer be played, regardless of whether a boxed copy exists or a museum exhibit displays its logo, is not preserved. Donating defunct hardware or promotional discs does not preserve interactive media—it aestheticizes its erasure.

Because our cause is just, and we can This is a move to update the laws ultimately, in favor of We, the Consumers. Now that is true for gamers everywhere, where we find our options limited, and our patience abused by bad actors in the gaming space. While we have options in the market to get what we want, today, we see that the big companies just do not care to give us what we want enough of the time

You bought it, but can you fix it, modify it, repurpose it without permission? Probably not. Can you prevent it from spying on you, from being rendered obsolete by force or fiat? Less and less so. Ownership has slipped into a myth. What we’re left with is access. And access can be revoked.

What do you think gamers? Are we dead? Is the games industry dead like they say? Or is it gaming journalism that's dead?

We have witnessed the demonization and vilification of the gaming public by members of the press and gaming industry. We reject this.

This is unsettling but necessary subject to address. Not just a nuisance in gaming spaces—an abusive menace to any community he infiltrates. We've got to reject bad actors seeking to damage the gaming community.

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