California's Protect Our Games Act Heads to the Senate
AB 1921 cleared the Assembly 43-16 and now faces committee hearings that could reshape how every publisher sunsets games.
Stop Killing Games just turned a petition into actual legislation moving through Sacramento. California's AB 1921, the Protect Our Games Act, passed the Assembly 43-16 and is now in front of the State Senate for committee hearings. The bill would force publishers to give 60 days' notice before pulling the plug on a server-dependent game, then either ship an offline patch, release a playable version, or refund buyers, applying to titles sold on or after January 1, 2027. The ESA is fighting it, calling it misguided and harmful to developers, which is the predictable response from the people who'd have to comply. What makes this bigger than one state is the California effect: no publisher is going to build a separate sunset policy just for California, so if this becomes law, its rules quietly become the national floor.