Submitted 3 hours ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
I see a lot of defeatist commenters are content to lie down and let this be the end result. I’ll let the man himself explain why this isn’t the end: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgoODQFrPgw&t=734s
tl;dw: There is a much broader support for SKG in the European Parliament, the other legislative body besides the EC. They can’t introduce new legislation, but they can modify existing legislation; specifically, SKG is targeting the Digital Fairness Act.
Definitely not the end of the movement, but it’s still disappointing that they reached anything other than the obvious conclusion with so much grassroots support.
Expected, though. The EC is not exactly known for having sensible opinions.
Money wins again.
It’s not a big enough issue for the pols to come down on the side of the people. They know they won’t be voted out on this one decision, so they came down on the side of the money.
On the bright side, there’s not enough money in live service anymore, so plenty of companies are getting cold feet when it comes to making games that can be killed anyway. Yeah, that’s a reach for a silver lining, but it’s something. I’d like to believe that the action they say they’re taking will result in real change, but it sure doesn’t sound like it.
Goddamn It
As it is the tradition in the sector, I hope the industry will listen to player communities and agree on better sunsetting standards so communities can continue to meet and play together.
lol. lmao even.
Industry? Listening to customers?
Good video to show how bs the corpo claims are. Especially the licensing claims.
What the fuck @EUCommission ? You are listening to people who don't represent the majority of users. Fuck you.
TLDR “we have been successfully lobbied/bribed/corrupted into doing nothing (we may end up making it easier for publishers to do whatever they want)”.
Lot of EU supremacist/jingoist gamers gonna be feeling some serious cognitive dissonance tonight.
I knew this was coming and still somehow feel disappointed.
Corruption. Corruption everywhere.
Never had any faith in them anyway, just empty old suits that should have retired 20 years ago and now just want to get a bit more money before they keel over.
Best solution is to just stop buying games and go back to piracy, only way to keep your games these days.
The reason these games can be destroyed is that even piracy is often impossible. The ones you’re pirating are more often than not going to be the ones that were never at risk of being targeted by this petition.
Then start considering buying games that you can also get through piracy, as long as you keep giving them money and allowing them control nothing will change.
list everyone who voted for rejection, dig up what else they have been up to, make sure people know and will not forget. no peace for these assholes.
The EU commission is not democratic. The Parliament is. And of cours the power lies with the commission.
EU commission does what everyone expected them to do: Deciding based on lobbyism.
Fuck the Eu Commission. They are traitors to everything the EU stands for.
Uh, they are the EU.
Uh, they are not. The European Commission is one of two legislative bodies. The European Parliament is where SKG has a much broader support.
I very much doubt this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and causes us to rebel against the system and tear down these structures of oppression that benefit business and capital at the expense of people and humanity. But it could be, and that excites me.
:(
Cringe. The tentacles of Pirate Software are far reaching.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 8 minutes ago
Bummer