So does not allowing food companies to sprinkle lead and uranium in food. What's the point?
Ah, the propaganda war has started.
That's good news. Means the initiative has a shot.
It was disquieting back when they were just flat out ignoring it.
They were probably thinking that by openly opposing it before it collected enough signatures, they would have given it more publicity and hence made more people sign it.
Yes, it curtails you from making absurd choices about how to fuck customers out of the money they paid for your games
Yeah, because the choices they have now is working great for quality games...
Fuck developer choice! What about my choice as a consumer?
Corporate jargon translation:
"It's going to limit innovation" = "We won't be able to use those new ways of ripping off our customers anymore"
Backpedaling to "defending creators" - that's a bold move, Cotton.
Keep signing it! Don't stop!
All games become subscription only in 3..2..
"Developers" are the ones who are passionate about the games they make, and definitely don't want their games dead.
"Corporations" are the ones who only want to profit from selling the game, and then ditch it once it's no longer lucrative enough.
We saw the depths a nepo baby from Blizzard would go to 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.)
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.
Good. Your choices are bad
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