I don't know why these companies think they can talk their way out of this. No one is buying your BS. Just STFU.

"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.

Fuck developer choice! What about my choice as a consumer?

Keep signing it! Don't stop!

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...

Cold Take has a counterargument video if anyone actually cares enough to take this seriously

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.

Backpedaling to "defending creators" - that's a bold move, Cotton.

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.)

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.

Good. Your choices are bad

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.

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

Lol publishers curtail developer choice, gtfo

Of course it's limiting your options!

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