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- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 4 days 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.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 5 days ago:
Blizzard’s position is that the subscription is for the use of the client as well as their server. A private server allows you to play without an active subscription, thus piracy.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 6 days ago:
The way I see it there are two possible reasons:
- 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.
- 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!
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 6 days ago:
And they’ve been successful with that strategy (for now)
Regardless, the Protect Our Games Act did not make it out of this stage of the legislative process. With four aye votes, three noes, and four abstentions, it failed to accrue the majority of ayes necessary to pass. Nevertheless, it has been granted a reconsideration, so it’s not the end.
- Submitted 6 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 121 comments
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
Germany doesn’t but French McD has
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
*citizens, not users
- Comment on The European Commission's answer to SKG: "The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially." 2 weeks ago:
As pointed out by Ross Scott himself in this videothis kind of answer was basically expected.
That’s why the current strategy is to get MEPs to amend the digital fairness act, which doesn’t require the Commissions approval.
- The European Commission's answer to SKG: "The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially."ec.europa.eu ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 33 comments
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- Comment on Stop Killing Games: The POG Act has passed at the CA State Assembly! 5 weeks ago:
As stated in the first sentence POG stands for “Protect Our Games”. For a quick overview of the bills content I’m just going to quote Wikipedia (emphasis by me):
In February 2026, the Protect Our Games Act was introduced. Initially proposed by California State Assembly member Chris Ward in February of that year, the bill would require publishers to inform consumers 60 days in advance about a game ending support and to provide clear information about the game’s functionality after its end-of-life. The bill would also prohibit companies from selling a game two months before their discontinuation and require them to provide either a patch for the game to function independently of the publisher’s servers, a separate version of the game that operates autonomously in the same vein or a full product return.
TLDR: it’s a bill that would, if implemented, mandate the things Stop Killing Games wants.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
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- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 2 months ago:
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
- Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on 'Star Trek': Andy Weir Apologizes To Alex Kurtzman Over Podcast Remarks 3 months ago:
Yes it is
- Comment on 'Star Trek': Andy Weir Apologizes To Alex Kurtzman Over Podcast Remarks 3 months ago:
The Critical Drinker is a notorious right wing grift YouTuber and podcaster.
Here is a video about him that explains more: youtu.be/2lgmvraCq1g
- Submitted 5 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 6 months ago:
You’ll also probably want to bookmark this: docs.chrultrabook.com/docs/…/post-install.html#ge…
The Chrultrabook project makes the distro run a bit smoother once it’s installed by providing fixes for the audio stack and custom keyboard layouts to make the top row of keys work properly among other things
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 6 months ago:
docs.mrchromebox.tech provides custom coreboot firmware for a variety of ChromeOS devices. Once you’ve flashed it on your Chromebook, you should be able to just install Linux on it
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 7 months ago:
Something something, republicans are spineless cowards, something something, the supremecourt has been captured?
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Pretty much
- Comment on 7 months ago:
They don’t choose the platform, the platforms choose them. Under EU regulation WhatsApp as a “gatekeeper” has to give access to any other platform operating in the EU if they request it. Three a, Signal and co simply aren’t interested.
- Submitted 8 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund 9 months ago:
And one of the other investors is Jared Kushner
- Submitted 10 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 23 comments
- Submitted 10 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Stop Killing Games: The EU's Digital Fairness Act, or how you can help even if you've already signed 11 months ago:
I’m not defending the praxis, but I will point out that this is a slightly different problem. The initiative is fine with publishers delisting a game, after all. It’s more concerned with what happens to a game after it has been sold.
That doesn’t excuse payment providers playing cop, but again: Slightly different problem.
- Stop Killing Games: The EU's Digital Fairness Act, or how you can help even if you've already signedec.europa.eu ↗Submitted 11 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
