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Sort of. But it's easy to understand their thinking.

A long time ago they were a left winged party. But nowadays they're so afraid of the far right that for each decision they ask themselves "what would people absolutely not expect from a left winged party? Let's do that!" Which has led to several more right winged policies than the previous right winged government.

Unless it's a referendum, apparently.

These current politicians dont know a single thing about what you said but I agree

That only covers games that are loosely using servers for communication, piracy and cheating. That also puts game companies into the realm of losing their IP if they shut down temporarily in an acquisition. If you start a studio, run out of cash and get aquired, you'll actually want that game you made to still be worth something, it doesn't just affect those AAA players.

I think you need to add something like an escrow with x months of running costs. Once that well runs dry you need to go down to the providing a working server. I've been through the industry and I can confidently tell you that an API isn't enough for a hell of a lot of games. Some of the stuff I've seen, it would take the actual game team a half a year to bring it back up with the source because the stuff they were using when they went under was ancient. You don't want to buy a server authoratative game and wait around a year while the community tries to ressurect it.

Some of the quotes are good, yes.

And I agree the more because entertainment involving social interactions is as important as political spaces. It's not aristocrats complaining about bad cake when people don't have bread. Most of my social interactions were, actually, concentrated around

The bullshit about it being hard to design anything without a kill switch is irritating. A kill switch is the additional expense and complication. Something without a kill switch might not be readily available to run after the company shuts down its servers, but nobody needs that really. Simplifying things, there are plenty of people among players capable of deploying infrastructure.

In any case, when the only thing you need is documented operation and ability to set the service domain name and\or addresses, where the former the company needs itself and the latter is trivial, it's all farting steam.

On the subject of ownership, Peacock claimed that video games being licensed to consumers, rather than sold, was not a new phenomenon, and that “in the 1980s, tearing the wrapping on a box to a games cartridge was the way that gamers agreed to licensing terms.”

This is absolute bullshit and not at all how it works, now or back in the 1980s. You can't agree to terms without seeing them first, and even then such agreements aren't necessarily legally binding. For someone who is supposed to write laws, she should be removed from office for showing such gross incompetence.

TBH this is just how petitions in the UK work: enough people sign it, it goes to parliament, they say a bunch of stuff about it that often sounds reasonable enough, then they do nothing about it. It's just a way to give the public the illusion that they're being listened to without having to actually do anything. It was the same with the digital ID petition, which I still signed but with 100% expectation that it wouldn't actually achieve anything.

Handing online servers over to consumers...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is Stop Killing Games specifically against this? This sounds like some Pirate Software bullshit. My understanding is we want the tools to host our own servers if the parent company decides to take theirs offline.

They mentioned the early days when it comes to licensing games to us.

But dont mention that in the early days of multiplayer games it was us moderating our own online communities, not the company selling the game.

The hope is that the EU will legislate it and not even apple fucks with the EU.

I stopped buying that stuff ten years ago. Indie games are always better these days

I mean... A large percentage of NFTs now link to nothing. Dead URLs. So the bored ape bros should actually be on the side of digital preservation & Stop Killing Games.

But considering 96% of NFTs are now dead projects worth nothing, the bored ape bros probably just want to forget about the whole thing and move onto the next get rich quick scheme.