Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'

Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So absolutely no one I respect. Nice. ESA go fuck yourself.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes. I was worried while I read the list, but known assholes top to bottom. That’s nice, I guess?

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  • TotalCourage007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wonder how many of these guys employee lawyer trolls scumbags. looks and finds Nintendo Ninjas only one of the most bs litigous companies.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not sure if they are lawyers but they are all employing scumbag trolls, that is what ESA is.

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• Koenig2005@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s the point in Microsoft shooting against “their own” product? I mean, the option for public or private servers is literally built into the game. Also there is the option for playing together over LAN which you could also argue is a private server.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you have the facts, you pound the facts. If you have the law, you pound the law. If you have neither, you pound the table. This is the ESA pounding the table, and the goal is to confuse the gerontocracy LARPing as lawmakers.

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is why tech has gotten so out of control in the US. In the past 40 years, this industry has had so many revolutionary inventions while our legislators on average get older and less likely to understand the newest technology, thereby making them more susceptible to being misled or misleading others. Combined with our legislators not giving a fuck about actual economics, this is how we have oligopolies everywhere in the US with cartel behavior

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Things have gotten so out of control because people have gotten stupid and lazy and put up with all of this shit.

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  • Vittelius@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The way I see it there are two possible reasons:

    1. incompetence: The statement in question was said by ESA’s vice president for state government affairs, in other words a professional lobbyist. Video games are her day job, not her hobby. I don’t know how much she actually plays herself. It may therefore be the case that she wasn’t briefed properly or she got confused. The ESA is currently persuing legal action against certain private servers after all. The article contains specifics on those but in short: Those servers enable piracy, the Minecraft ones don’t.
    2. they are lying: the whole thing was part of a hearing on Stop Killing Games. Private servers are one of the ways to fulfill their demands. It us the industry’s position that implementing those is too complicated. Each instance of private servers existing weakens the argument. So better pretend that those don’t exist. After all gamers won’t even learn about this statement. It’s a random California state senate hearing. They don’t watch those!

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  • AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a left over from the indie days. I highly doubt they’d make that available in a new game. But in this case I think its probably a law person that has no clue about games.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Saruman and Gríma just want to shape and influence the largest cavalry force of Middle Earth…

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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank for for this list.

  I was prepared to add to my boycot list, but I guess sometimes the biggest assholes are exactly who we already expected.

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get why everyone is on this list except Netflix. Am I missing something? Cause that seems a tad bit random.

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  • Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Netflix has a studio that publishes games on mobile, one of their most well known product is partnering with Take2/Rockstar to port the Definitive Edition of GTAIII/VC/SA to mobile, as questionable as they are.

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  • ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Netflix on mobile included games, last I knew. But I haven’t had a subscription in some time.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Huh. Guess that shows how much I pay attention to mobile shit.

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• CovertOperative@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Atari still exists??

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  • Vittelius@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sort of… It’s a different company that bought the name years ago when the old Atari went bankrupt. Technically it’s a French publisher formerly known as Infogrames.

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