Fuck developer choice! What about my choice as a consumer?

"Won't somebody PLEASE think of the ~~children~~ devs!?"

The last refuge of a dying argument 😴

Choice to do what?

These are their two points:

Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable. In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

I feel like the first is fair enough at the moment, but with accompanying laws it could be resolved. Eg once a developer enacts an end of life plan, their legal culpability is removed. Plus give the right tools for moderation and the community can take care of it.

Second is just a cop out I think. "Many titles are designed from the ground up to be online only" - that's the whole point. It's not retroactive, so you don't need to redesign an existing game. But going forward you would need to plan for the eventual end of life. Developers have chimed in that it can be done.

Yes, it curtails you from making absurd choices about how to fuck customers out of the money they paid for your games

Even if this would be true (which it isn’t, it’s made up bullshit): I do not give a crap.

No, I do not care about the publisher.

No, I do not care about the studio.

No, I do not care about the developer anymore too.

I do not give a single fuck about any of them anymore. I want to own the game I buy. I don’t want anyone being able to pull the plug. I also want to own the hardware or console I buy. I am ready to watch their existence to crumble as long as I get what I want.

These people lied and conned this hobby of mine into monetised shite. I hope a lot of them somehow crash and burn. Would laugh and dance when they croak. I can play Factorio and Terraria until the heat death of the universe. Your new Assassins Blood Pack: Revenge of the Fortnite 2 Deluxe Bundle MMO-Life Service Definitive Expansion Season Pass DLC Dark of the Moon Surprise Mechanic won’t be missed anyway.

Yeah, because the choices they have now is working great for quality games...

We saw the depths a nepo baby from Blizzard would go for this initiative to fail, can't imagine what could happen with a body comprised of people from the biggest worms in the industry (Epic, EA, Activision, Microsoft, Ubi et al.)

I don't know why these companies think they can talk their way out of this. No one is buying your BS. Just STFU.

Good so that means they won't pre plan bullshit games that are money grabs destined to fail. Go fuck yourselves companies that do that.

You are being stopped from stopping people playing their games.

That's a double negative bruh, as in, it reduces overrall limitations in the world for what people are allowed to do.

1.2 million as of now. So fucking proud to be European.

Backpedaling to "defending creators" - that's a bold move, Cotton.

Well when the choice is anti consumer, too fucking bad.

Lol publishers curtail developer choice, gtfo

Muh business model :'(

Good. Your choices are bad

When you work hard to create a consumer economy, the first rule is, don't piss off the consumers!

First of all, the devs don't have any choice, the Pencil-pushers do

The only choice it really limits from the publisher is the choice to decide to stop supporting a game out of nowhere. This new plan would just make it so you have to eventually plan to sunset the game from its "live" elements.

It needs way more people, because I guess a lot of people from all over the world used VPNs to sign the petition and will get nullified.

So if you planned to do it, don't, you will hurt your goals more than you're doing an good.