In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.
Why even bother asking industry outlets about this? Clearly they will just keep on trying to paint the picture that they’re people with rights and desires and not just replaceable entities serving at the behest of consumers, i.e. actual people.
Unfortunately, even if the Stop Killing Games movement eventually succeeds in creating some sort of policy changes, they will only apply in the EU (and potentially the UK, as well), so publishers and developers may still be able to permanently shut down games in other parts of the world.
Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that. The whole world automatically benefits from regional legislation affecting global actors like international publishers. Just like the whole world benefitted from Europe enforcing GDPR compliance: Every reddit and Facebook user, not just Europeans, being able to download a data dump of their site activities isn’t something that came about randomly.
Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that. The whole world automatically benefits from regional legislation affecting global actors like international publishers. Just like the whole world benefitted from Europe enforcing GDPR compliance: Every reddit and Facebook user, not just Europeans, being able to download a data dump of their site activities isn’t something that came about randomly.
I also think they’re making a bad point. Like, if you want to spend money to shit down your games except Europe, then do so, if you want. We ain’t gonna stop you, just seems stupid to invest money into this thing that isn’t going to get a high return either way.
Why even bother asking industry outlets about this? Clearly they will just keep on trying to paint the picture that they’re people with rights and desires and not just replaceable entities serving at the behest of consumers, i.e. actual people.
Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that. The whole world automatically benefits from regional legislation affecting global actors like international publishers. Just like the whole world benefitted from Europe enforcing GDPR compliance: Every reddit and Facebook user, not just Europeans, being able to download a data dump of their site activities isn’t something that came about randomly.
I also think they’re making a bad point. Like, if you want to spend money to shit down your games except Europe, then do so, if you want. We ain’t gonna stop you, just seems stupid to invest money into this thing that isn’t going to get a high return either way.