The UK government has responded to a petition filed by the game preservation campaign Stop Killing Games, and if you were hoping for a major change in the law to ensure situations like The Crew can never happen again...well, you're going to be disappointed.
As spotted by Eurogamer, the UK government's response can be found on the Parliamentary petition page, and the summary confirms that there are "no plans to amend UK consumer law on disabling video games".
In the full statement, the government says it's "aware of issues relating to the life-span of digital content, including video games", but that there's no legal requirement for software companies to support their products, claiming that "decision-making" on that front is for the companies themselves, not the law.
The government goes on to say that supporting older games or software "may be difficult and expensive for businesses", particularly if supporting that software means it "needs to interact with new technologies".
Further on in the statement, the government acknowledges that "if software is offered for sale that is not supported by the provider, then this should be made clear, for example on product webpages and physical packaging".
As Eurogamer notes, however,...
