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• youngalfred@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • nous@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    once a developer enacts an end of life plan, their legal culpability is removed What legal culpability? If you are not hosting anything then you wont be liable for anything. It is not like if you create a painting and someone defaces it with something that you become liable for that… That would be insane.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All games become subscription only in 3…2…

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let them try. Most game will utterly fail with that approach and I would love to see that.

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Subscribe to see how the countdown finishes!

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ahh, backpedaling to “defending creators” - that’s a bold move, Cotton.

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• chrislowles@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We saw the depths a nepo baby of 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.)

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• catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good. Your choices are bad

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Muh business model :'(

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• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Surp@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol publishers curtail developer choice, gtfo

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• AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh no?! It developer’s choices vs purchaser’s options. Who will win, it’s a mystery only time can solve. Just kidding, we all know who the courts will side with, as it is never “the people”.

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course it’s limiting your options!

  Screwing up the customer should not be an option you’re allowed to take!

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly I don’t see it as the developers losing anything. They still make the same products, they still sell the same products, and when they’re done with those products forever they have to give hosting capability up to the public.

  What are they afraid of? That we won’t play their new games if they can’t shut the old games down?

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• MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, a shitton of game developers just got laid off from Microsoft, another in a string of “restructuring” nonsense that’s been rampant in the industry.

  That’s a lot of people with gaming expertise who could be put to work helping companies transition their games to single player experiences or at least making them accessible to customers after support stops. If the EU ends up pushing this forward, there’s a decent business opportunity in there.

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ya…

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