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Its because they know this will shackle companies with these shitty live service games since they can’t imagine making some self hostable version at EoL. This will essentially kill live service games, I bet execs and investors are that stupid. I fucken pray it passes.
I thought the stop killing games was only for games that charge money to play and that live service games would not be affected.
Am I wrong here?
It depends on what you mean by “charge money”. Subscription monthly payment? Not affected. One-time purchase? Affected.
Essentially, if your average consumer would understand that you “bought” the game, then that game cannot be rendered completely inoperable. When the studio shuts down their servers, they must provide either a version of the game with multiplayer and server connection disabled, or provide a means for players to run their own servers.
But that would ironically be killing a subset of games.
If that subset of gaming is exesentially tied to the systemtic abuse of consumer rights, then that subset should not exist.
But I liked Destiny.
It would be nice if it wasn’t blocked
So, not just me. I feel like I’m getting a ton of “go away” denials lately.
