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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 33 points 3 days ago

Keep signing it! Don't stop!

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

They can and they will just lobby commission or EU Parliament if needed.

[–] creamlike504@jlai.lu 9 points 2 days ago

It's to give talking points to the politicians they paid for.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 30 points 3 days ago (9 children)

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

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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

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

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 days ago

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

[–] youngalfred@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] chrislowles@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.)

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago
[–] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago

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

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