The new Gamer's Bill of Rights

[Lava Croft]

Edge Online posted the new Gamer's Bill of Rights, as proposed by Gas Powered Games and Stardock.

Let's hope this dream eventually becomes reality.

[Syntac]

Looks interesting. Now, if only those were laws...

[Eeeew Spiders]

Doesn't seem to be related to open source games.
All I expect is not to get a virus from this, everything else is a gift

[mooseberry]

Sounds good to me, but of course it would mostly be smaller companies who would follow this, as big companies like EA most likely won't give a damn because they know enough people will buy their games anyways.

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Fucking hippies.

[ampul]

#2 Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
#3 Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.

define: finished
1.   ended or completed.
2.   completed or perfected in all details, as a product: to pack and ship finished items.
3.   polished to the highest degree of excellence: a dazzling and finished piece of writing.
4.   highly skilled or accomplished: a finished violinist.
5.   condemned, doomed, or in the process of extinction: The aristocracy was finished after the revolution.
6.   (of livestock) fattened and ready for market.

you can not have updates when a game is released in a finished state.

[Lava Croft]

you can not have updates when a game is released in a finished state.

New maps, new gamemodes, to name a few. These can all be supplied via meaningful updates,
while the released game still remains a finished game.

[ampul]

update , common used is patch, so: not finished. add-on would be a better word to use.
you know my native tongue, lava. i do understand what meaningful updates are about.  it just sounded weird and inconsistent to me. thanks to sort this out.

when reading the gamer's bill i remembered a mod my brother made for bf vietnam: http://www.pimp-city.tk/ (site is no more updated, the project is finished = ended)
bf1942 and sequels were games with tons of patch/updates etc.

btw, laminating is a correct verb.