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They'll have to release complete games? The scandal
Oh no, the games you pay for and can continue to play? This is the crux of it people. I bought Anthem, the ME POS it was but you know what, I can’t hate play it soon since servers are going off line and you can’t play without being online. I have 6 months left of life support on it now.
Not what it means anyway.
It simply means that if a publisher wants to abandon a game they have to provide a way for people who paid for it to continue to play the thing they paid for.
i.e. they can’t turn off a server and say “games gone now, cya”. This has happened more than once and the initiative is important because as modern digital consumption moves more and more to a licensed subscription model for everything this is going to start being an issue.
There’s some nuance to it but the entire point behind it is to prevent things people own and paid for being taken from them.
Thank God one guy seems to actually have a idea what this thing is
Neutral Evils be rolling nat20s
Who's the netd that isnt peter parker?
PirateSoftware. He's a streamer whose big claim to fame is "I worked at WoW once, no trust me guys I was really important". He (possibly) modulates his voice to sound way deeper than it really is.
(Allegedly) he was just a game tester, too
Not allegedly.
He worked in QA (testing) and then on web security. He was never remotely involved in game development and his entire dev experience is one shitty and very poorly coded unfinished game that he stopped working on at all once he got his “early access” money.
Source: am actual dev, this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. At all.
Wasn’t his dad the one who was the actual ground level foundational WoW dev and he got a nepo job at blizzard as a result?
That's the one!
Web security forhim is social engineering.
Which is important dont get me wrong, but it aint deving.
It's not development at all.
I work with security people all the time, their job is absolutely not writing code.. they run reports/scans/and identify vulnerabilities to be fixed.
Obviously there are plenty of security people who can code and plenty of jobs in security that involve coding. But it's definitely not a code first role. Which is fine and all, coding isn't anything special in the slightest and is no more/less difficult than any other IT job.
But anyone thinking he has dev experience from Blizzard is very wrong.
Wasn't he building that hot mess in Gamemaker at that?
He claims to work at game testing and QA
His dad was important. He's just a shmuck that got a job there because of him.
I've met him in person, his voice is actually very deep.
I've met that guy ☝️ in person, his voice is very deep as well.
He can be wrong about something without needing to make up lies about him.
Stop being silly. There's video of him receiving some streamer award and he sounds the same as he does on stream.
There's also videos of him forgetting to lower his voice, it's not modulation he just deepens it
The game world is nuanced and complicated, with some developers releasing complete games and then adding onto them, while others release incomplete games and rely on support to have enough money to fund development, there are the money hungry companies, but not every situation is the same
Repost.
Also the initiative won't kill live service games anyways
The net change will be a sticker on the box and a line in the EULA
On digital the purchase button will become a subscribe button or there will be a notice prominently displayed next to it.
That is the intent, it still needs to go through the process. I doubt it will get that heavy handed. It would be nice to mandate server code be made public as a part of the sunsetting process as suggested.
The initiative is a conversation starter for more than just what's in the initiative.
If it’s going to kill live service industry, I don’t mind killing the bad one
oh no, no p2w or mtx? just a finished game? oh no!
Mtx is totally fine in F2P games if you ask me
yes and no. 70€ for a armor skin in POE for example is not ok. 10€ for a fortniteskin is
Have you seen how many foreskins there are?
I'd never buy a 70€ skin but if it isn't gatcha or employing unethical methods like FOMO it's still not that big of a deal imo
Yes, please.
Tell that to the Callisto protocol CEO.
No, it won't. Petition asks to keep singleplayer games. "Live service will be killed" is a way to counter the real issue.
I still think this will do dick and all but I'm not saying dont try
Meanwhile his heartbound still not released yet
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