cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15126981
This comes after a sea of games have been lost due to the creators turning off the servers. While community remake projects like RELB for Lawbreakers, Loadout Reloaded and a server emulator for The Crew exist, they’re miles behind where we’d be if publishers just released a way to host our own servers before killing their creations. They need more signatures from European citizens and then the proposal goes to a board who decide what to do with it.
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While the intention is good. The wording they want is terrible and clearly written by an angry group, not one thinking critically and actually trying to fix the root cause of the issue. Laws need to be specific, and this is very vague,which is bad when dealing with politicians. They are not subject matter experts. That’s the actual point of lobbying your representatives, to give them the information they need to try and get the right laws passed. They don’t understand the nuances of the game development industr to tweak this.
Pirate software has a really good video breaking down the issues with this specific movement, as it currently exists.
Holy shit that dude is incredibly stupid, wow
I gotta say the guy usually has based takes but I think he is way off the mark on this. Litterally all they want is if a game requires a server, give players the option to self host if the publisher is shutting down theirs.
This isn’t a law project to be voted, is a citizen initiative, asking for a law project to be created based on.
This is an excellent response to the piratesoftware video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TF4zH8bJDI8
