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EU Citizen's initiative to pass legislation to stop game publishers disabling games we paid for
(www.stopkillinggames.com)
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An interesting question is whether this would be constitutional in the US, if ever attempted here. Generally, forcing developers to code something has been considered "compelled speech", though this defense gets deployed to varying degrees of effectiveness (i.e. refusing to code proper authentication doesn't exempt you from liability in a breach just because requiring that auth would compel you to code it).
Frankly I have no faith we'll ever see game makes forced into being consumer-friendly, and I've just begun to refuse to purchase any "Live Service" games precisely because I don't want to be investing hours of my time into something that can be taken away at-will.
Good question. Presumably games like this will have a server that is proprietary, and the compulsion may simply be to make the server source or executables available, rather than creating anything new