Industry lobby group opposes consumer protection movement. In other news: water is wet.
100%! Every single developer I’ve ever met has been adamant about wanting to watch their work, hours of their life, be killed off on a financial basis! They told me so personally!
Edit: speaking seriously now, I don’t get what their fucking problem is… Nobody’s asking them to keep the servers running indefinitely. I mean, the far, far smarter choice would be to implement LAN play. Hell, not even that, give us the source code and we’ll do it on our own! The community has been aces at keeping old multiplayer games alive and kicking, just look at Battlefield 2142, custom WoW servers, custom, like… whatever servers. There are so, so many people willing to keep these games alive without any help from the publisher or anyone else.
And they especially don’t want end users to be informed about the game’s life expectancy before they pay for it!
Well, that would spoil the fun, wouldn’t it! I mean, that soul-whittling existential anxiety I get whenever I pick up an online-only game is 90% of the reason why I play them in the first place!
Yes, it will restrict developer… well, really, mostly publisher choice, in 99% of the scenarios this will actually affect, if you go by amount of money involved.
Specifically their choice to Thanos snap all of your MTX purchased items out of existence, their choice to EoL a game without having some kind of at least mostly functional final patch and/or release of a stripped down dedi server binary.
Yep.
They’re right.
It would restrict those choices.
Like how we have lemon laws that restrict the choice of a car dealer/mfg to sell you a catastrophically broken piece of crap.
Had to go look for something important before i replied.
“We understand that it can be disappointing for players but, when it does happen, the industry ensures that players are given fair notice of the prospective changes in compliance with local consumer protection laws.”
LOL
Its cool, guys. They are gonna tell us in advance “fuck you, suckers!” instead of just pulling the rug out from under you.
