Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge

Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The hope is that the EU will legislate it and not even apple fucks with the EU.

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• DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I stopped buying that stuff ten years ago. Indie games are always better these days

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• arararagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I did, so did Ross that started this, it’s not working.

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• dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m unconvinced anyone will really legislate this,

  The Eurpean Union sort of has it’s head on when it comes to addressing consumer rights, if they legislate this, then the entirety of europe will likely benefit (even those outside the european union like the UK, examples of this have happened before if im correct, see windows 10 1 year extension for eu).

  and if it is, it’ll just lead to that country being scratched off the list of where the game is officially supported.

  No it won’t. Maybe if it’s a country with no internet and doesn’t have a population interested in gaming, but any major country like UK, Germany, etc enforcing this would force the hands of game publishers bevause these markets are just too big.

  No publisher is going to pull out of the UK for example.

  Realistically, we need to stop buying online only games where the servers will eventually go offline, and support those that release open servers.

  I agree. Unfortunately most people are unaware or have no backbone so they keep on buying the next “big” game, nevertheless I agree, we need to stop supporting anti-consumer behavior instead of defending it.

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