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If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers "killing games."

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Used to be the norm back in the day though. I'm saying 15 years or so before the old internet disappeared with AWS etc.

Self hosted should be an option and I think this is a reasonable requirement tbqh. Yeah it's not 0 work but it's not a hardship either, really, given the many hours that are going to be needed on netcode anyway. Especially if you know this going in to development.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That isn't an unreasonable take. But the language this proposal uses is far too vague and leaves too much in the hands of the government, and could be used by the EU, an organization not really known for their tech savvy, to place some burdensome requirements on developers....especially indie developers who do not have the resources that big studios have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Indie developers are the only ones doing that, Knockout City devs released their hosting software for the community, it's the AAA developers that wanted to maintain control.