Writing a “best by” date on the store page is too taxing for studios who don’t want to proving the protocol documentation to create a dedicated server?
Writing a “best by” date on the store page is too taxing for studios who don’t want to proving the protocol documentation to create a dedicated server?
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 days ago
What does that even mean? Are you implying that you can predict sales numbers?
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I mean that’s literally what’s asked for: Follow European sales laws by considering the game as a rental (so, monthly subscription), or provide a legally mandated end date before buying (legally considering the product as a perishable in short), or provide the means for the customer to continue to use their product (with either tools or documentation, you don’t have to keep running the servers forever).
The fact big players in the industry try to dismiss to whole thing as an overreaction by out of touch kids when they already do the work that would make them compliant as a part of game dev is more an insult than anything else.