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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

Yeah, because the choices they have now is working great for quality games...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Yes, it curtails you from making absurd choices about how to fuck customers out of the money they paid for your games

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Curtailing developer choice is rather the point, no?

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why are publishers speaking for devs about how much choice devs would have? Why not get devs to speak?

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Giant corporations have proven no amount of profit is too much. There needs to be some guardrails. And some form of preservation of the games your loyal customers have enriched your company to access.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Honestly I don't see it as the developers losing anything. They still make the same products, they still sell the same products, and when they're done with those products forever they have to give hosting capability up to the public.

What are they afraid of? That we won't play their new games if they can't shut the old games down?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

So, a shitton of game developers just got laid off from Microsoft, another in a string of "restructuring" nonsense that's been rampant in the industry.

That's a lot of people with gaming expertise who could be put to work helping companies transition their games to single player experiences or at least making them accessible to customers after support stops. If the EU ends up pushing this forward, there's a decent business opportunity in there.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 days ago

they say "developer choice" because they know those words have positive connotations but what they mean is "publisher greed"

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If it means developers won’t make “live-service”/trash games anymore, we should hasten the SKG movement.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

FPS games with community servers coming back is my dream

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (5 children)

They still will, this will just limit their ability to force you to move to the next one once the servers shut down.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fuck developer choice! What about my choice as a consumer?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's easy have some self control and only buy games that respect you

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (6 children)

True. That doesn't mean we shouldn't attack predatory behavior when we see it. If they want to sell me something, I need to own it, and that means I get to use it after they've stopped supporting it.