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nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You are basically saying that consumer protection is useless, as consumers should protect themselves.

That would be true if all consumers would have the time and understanding to be perfectly informed all the time, which is not realistic.

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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If the population at large is too stupid to make healthy video game purchasing decisions, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for protections to come from the representatives they elected.

I can see a stack of ways that this isn’t going to work:

The government looks at the petition and says "No we’re not going to consider that."

The government says "We’ve considered that and decided to do nothing."

The government pulls an EU and the solution they come up with is to make every video game published everywhere in the world force the user to agree to the EULA every time the game launches, prompting a slew of “EULA auto-accept” mods to work around the annoying thing you now have to constantly click.

The government puts in a law that’s written decently. The industry, particularly those parts based outside the EU such as Japan and North America, ignore it, and shut down servers when they damn well please.

But let’s indulge in the fantasy that democracy works for a minute and Stop Killing Games becomes a law that works perfectly as intended. The publishers will find some other way to be shifty greedy fuckpukes. Case in point: Live service games just shutting down their servers whenever they want is 100% legal right now. The government currently is not protecting consumers. It never truly will. The shadiness of business will always outrun government protection, 100% of the time.

I still maintain, if you continue to pay for live service games, you’re the problem.
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