If a publisher cannot be legally compelled to provide access to a product you legally purchased, it stands to reason that people will decide legal purchase holds little value.
To the high seas, me hearties.
That isn't really an answer here; the games targeted by this legislation are specifically those that are difficult to pirate, specifically because of forced online interactions.
The problem Stop Killing Games is targeting is the DRM for these games that require a server ran by the publisher to always be accessible when you play the game. Pirated or not, all you’ll be greeted with after said servers are shut off is at best a large majority of the game being inaccessible, and at worst a perpetual error screen.
No worries, dis has been solved as well. Everythin' be crackable. High seas offer create booty, all up fer grabs. So step aboard 'n lets set sail.
Lemmite don't be cringe about piracy challenge
There was an update on this a couple days ago from Accursed Farms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgoODQFrPgw
tl;dw They were already expecting the Commission to be unwilling to propose new legislation, but they have a plan to go forward and achieve what they set out to do, using existing legislation. That would bypass the Commission all together, since no new legislation would be required.
So if you pay for something then you are deprived of it. I think there is a word for that... theft? So then the cops will arrest the ceos right?
Its not theft when a corporation does it.
I know :(
Ironically. Not how theft works.
I mean. And when you buy something, its your property right? And when you buy something that is advertised to do something, and then it doesn't, that could also be fraudulent. I know they are changing the wording now to say you dont own what you buy, but we can both agree that is utter bullshit
So how much did they get paid?
Official payments:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/about/meps
Bribes Lobbying is murkier. There were 30.000 meetings reported last year, after the first year of the current legislature. See: https://transparency.eu/new-mep-meetings/
It is unfortunately a predictable outcome.
A more effective campaign would be: "stop buying games that require an online connection".
25 years ago we already had games that could be played offline, on a local LAN, on user maintained internet servers and so on. There is no technical reason for modern games not to support such a mode.
I have a friend that makes games and she like to make it so you can do infinite split screen if you want because its funny. Your only limit is your hardware.
Goated reason
It feels like this kind of regulation would create a perverse incentive for more games to change into a free to download with subscription, gachas, pay to win, etc monetization scheme to circumvent the ‘I bought this and so should have access forever’ idea this is trying to defend. Wouldn’t ‘single player game/game-mode shall not require internet handshake’ be a more targeted way to try achieving this goal?
I fear that too. Yet your proposal would result in less single-player and more forced useless multiplayer like e.g. diablo4.
That’s fair, we just can’t win can we
I honestly do not know how. Whatever comes it would just incite some cat-n-mouse-game for eternity. Like piracy...
It feels like you never took the time to read what SKG is about and are just throwing out false assumptions.
I read the entire Stop Destroying Videogames citizens initiative, feel free to enlighten me on what i missed
Any monetisation would make the game subject to the rules, including microstransactions. The only way they could circumvent it is by only offering time-based subscriptions (like MMOs), and that would hurt their profits more than having end-of-life plan.
Bullshit
To be honest, I wish people would stop making toys so centric in their headspace, please put all of that effort into fighting surveillance instead or something of similar consequence
There is no requisite “instead of” here. People can apply effort toward a great many causes.
And yet they do consume resources, and even a small amount of resources ( which is not what is being spent on these toys) would be better spent on more serious matters
People who make anything (including noble causes) their entire personality are deeply unhealthy.
Then why are you wasting your precious resources and time here talking about this? Go do something you think is more important.
I wish people would stop trying to put down a whole medium of creativity, art, social experiences and unique interactions as "toys" but I'm not expecting you to change that opinion any time soon. Once you're done fighting surveillance are you just going to spend your spare time thinking about fighting surveillance? Don't get me wrong, people should be doing more of consequence but it's not possible to make every moment meaningful in that way.
Most people are capable of caring about more than one thing.
Its not just caring though, in order to make waves with any of this stuff, you need to put effort in and that can scale to consume a lot of time for the people involved
The time you spent whining about this could have been better spent.
God forbid people have hobbies or entertainment, right? How much time or effort do you waste on other bullshit, feeling superior despite the same failing? People can't always be productive.
Let people enjoy things. You don't know what else they do with their time.
I know reality can suck folk, but please, lets fix our basis first, thank you
And before someone says about their artistic content, I agree, the word toys does exclude that, however, just like toys, art MUST take second place to more industrial and violent matters
What have you done this week to advance those causes? Why are you spending so much time sitting on your ass and complaining on mostly-empty online spaces instead of doing important things?
Why is wasting time and effort on the 14 people who will read this comment more worthwhile than trying to protect beloved passtimes?
Fuck right off, you don't stop making art or enjoying life because there are political problems, you do more of it. Don't let hate get you down, commrade, look to increase the amount there is worth fighting for.