8mo ago

If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe

www.pcgamer.com

A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers "killing games."

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Wouldn’t they just not release the games instead?
- Unlikely. They don’t want to lose the entire European market.
  
  For a few specific games? Yeah they could stand to lose, it’s not every game in their catalog.
  
  It's every game sold to EU citizens, not only those made in the EU.
  
  That have multiplayer servers* what percentage of all games made fit the requirement that would fall under the umbrella of this law?
  
  Most of them that make them money. Steam Charts: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/global
  And this doesn't even take into account mobile games that generated 49% of global games market share revenue in 2023.
  
  At first glance, most look to be single player actually.
  Don’t just spout obvious bullshit and provide something that doesn’t even corroborate what you’re claiming, if you want to try and have a conversation dude don’t lie, don’t post stuff that shows the opposite of what you’re claiming. It just shows you have no idea about the content and wanted to complain.
  Vast majority of games are actually SP, not MP, so your claim is just showing you have zero intention of having a discussion on this, you just want to cry and be heard.
  
  Do you even understand what this is about? For games that are fully functionally offline this isnt even relevant. This is about multiplayer and forced online games. This is about any game that would stop functioning as intended due to the dev/publisher disabling servers of any sorts.
  
  Uhh… yeah, that’s literally what I mentioned a few comment before this person provided the top 100 games on steam saying most are MP, while in fact most are SP.
  Do you have an issue with reading comprehension or something…? Because that’s literally the argument I’ve been making lmfao.
  
  Honestly if it stops some single player games from shoehorning multiplayer aspects where they don't fit that's a win too.
- That would cut them off from a huge market. Just look at bad actors like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. They comply with EU laws, since losing the market would hurt them too much financially.
  
  For a few specific games? Yeah they could stand to lose, it’s not every game in their catalog.
  Totally different situation.
  
  They won't. Because of short term greed.
  
  They already don’t sell in particular markets because of laws, why do you think this time would be any different?
  The cost of making a point could easily make up for it, if we are just going to make stuff up that is.
  
  Oh, please, tell me how companies ignore profitable markets because of laws they don't like. China and Russia have some weird gaming laws that require companies to remake their whole game assets to sell there, yet they do it.
  
  Bethesda games couldn’t be sold in Germany for decades, no lgbqt games in a host of countries, there was just a huge issue with Sony and their requirements for helldivers or whatever… thats just the last year or so, plenty of precedence actually now that you brought it up.
  Do you even know what you’re talking about here? Or do you just make whatever random claim comes into your head first?
  What do you have to claim that they would cave? Most just move on and not sell it from what we just figured out, can you provide any on your side…?
- I don’t feel like reading the article, but I’m guessing if they want to release a multiplayer game that you have to pay for, and they want to shut down their servers (making the game unplayable), maybe they would be required to release their server software so people can host themselves.
  
  Yes, that’s part of the proposal. Another part is that you should be able to play the game even if you don’t have access to the servers.
  
  Oh, 100% agree with that.

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