Every company to ever fart out half a game:
Buy their shit and whine. Masterful plan.
If you want game companies to respect you, you have to respect yourself first and buy more wisely.
Extreme Utopia: If everyone on earth bought on GOG, DRM wouldn’t exist. If everyone bought games with selfhostable servers, games wouldn’t go offline. If everyone didn’t buy battlepasses, they wouldn’t exist.
This was normal back in the day. We got what we deserved.
History has shown that voting with your wallet is not a working substitute for consumer protections. Without those the conflict between consumers and scammers is very asymmetrical.
Consumer protection by corrupt politicians is a scam.
I propose vigilante molotovs on the offenders’ office and private housing.
The Commission cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially.
Reading this I see the following:
The commission cannot propose a legal obligation to keep an appliance, machine, car, tractor working after a company chooses go stop providing/selling it commercially.
Look like as soon as those heated seat subscription servers go down you won’t be able to reactive your cars seats. Or any product that requires proprietary/closed servers to function.
Exactly. Most products are discontinued after a year or two, that never meant they should stop functioning as soon as that happens. Sounds like more excuses planted from the industry itself instead of an independent commission properly understanding what they are dealing with.
I hate AI, dont get me wrong. But could you train an AI to reverse engineer serverside logic and structure based on packets? For example. If I collected packet data from thousand of play sessions, could not ML be used to train an AI to recognize the logical patterns? Just a thought several CEOs would probably behead me for having.
Yes, very much so. I mean, that only gets you the protocol specs, but it’s a start.
The original point is that we shouldn’t have to fucking do this. If they want to end the game and shut down servers, open source the source code and let other people use it.
