cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15126981
This comes after a sea of games have been lost due to the creators turning off the servers. While community remake projects like RELB for Lawbreakers, Loadout Reloaded and a server emulator for The Crew exist, they’re miles behind where we’d be if publishers just released a way to host our own servers before killing their creations. They need more signatures from European citizens and then the proposal goes to a board who decide what to do with it.
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1/5 of the way there! Keep signing the petition folks!
Thats the spirit!
While the intention is good. The wording they want is terrible and clearly written by an angry group, not one thinking critically and actually trying to fix the root cause of the issue. Laws need to be specific, and this is very vague,which is bad when dealing with politicians. They are not subject matter experts. That’s the actual point of lobbying your representatives, to give them the information they need to try and get the right laws passed. They don’t understand the nuances of the game development industr to tweak this.
Pirate software has a really good video breaking down the issues with this specific movement, as it currently exists.
This isn’t a law project to be voted, is a citizen initiative, asking for a law project to be created based on.
This is an excellent response to the piratesoftware video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TF4zH8bJDI8
This is an excellent response to the piratesoftware video:
No it isn’t, it isn’t a response to that video AT ALL. Rossman’s video was uploaded on August 4th. The Pirate Software video I linked was uploaded on August 6th.
Rossman is responding to a small section of a PirateSoftware livestream several days ago talking about Stop Killing Games off the top of his head on stream, not a fully edited and planned video after he had a chance to look more in depth.
Well, I guess I confused them up. Did he addressed Rossmann points?
Holy shit that dude is incredibly stupid, wow
All that video says to me “trust me, the industry won’t scam you”
I gotta say the guy usually has based takes but I think he is way off the mark on this. Litterally all they want is if a game requires a server, give players the option to self host if the publisher is shutting down theirs.
He shows a lot on YouTube shorts, usually with good comments.
No, he actually understands not only the player side, but also the actual development, publisher, and operations sides as well. He understands the dynamics of client-server interactions and that what’s being asked by Stop Killing Games.
Random commenters on social media with no relevant credentials beyond playing games making snide comments mean very little when we’re talking about discussing what we want to see from possible legislation.
Agreed, its a good idea in theory but theyre making it worse with ambiguous wording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3jMKeg9S-s
