• Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Can someone explain to me why Pirate Software has such a big problem with it, I tried to look it up and I’m still struggling to understand.

    • Phegan@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      He has multiple conflicts of interest and is taking the side of his wallet and not consumers.

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in
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      6 hours ago

      He thinks the initiative’s goal isn’t clear and passing a law based on an unclear direction would effectively kill all live service games.

      The problem is, reason behind making a law about it is clarifying how to approach this problem in the first place.

      • emmy67@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        I don’t think “killing all live servoce games” would even be bad at this point. When I ran dedicated servers back in the day that was much better.

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          and like, one of the options would be for live service games to say “we are planning to operate for {number} of years” and people would know to spend their money accordingly

          it would be transparent and informative and people would be empowered to make their own decisions

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            56 minutes ago

            I wish they dropped the server code for us all to see what metrics etc they’ve been digging for all these years…

      • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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        6 hours ago

        Ahh it sort of makes sense if you don’t think about it too long, gotcha.

        Thanks very much!