• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in
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    18 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.

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      14 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.

      • Ernest@lemmy.zip
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        13 hours ago

        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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          13 hours ago

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

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        8 hours ago

        Dunno if you’ve noticed - in today’s world politicians and businessmen want the server side to be precious magic.

        Having anything dedicated is opposed to that.

    • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

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

      Thanks very much!