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[ANSWERED] What's going on with some person seemingly called "PirateSoftware" and the stop killing games campaign? (lemmy.abnormalbeings.space)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world
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Saw people talking in comments at several places now, expressing animosity towards them to say the least, always presented as something that everyone seems to know about.

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[–] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you designed it for that eventuality, yeah, it’s easy to do

This just goes back to the other issue:

If your country demands the game devs contort and twist their architecture to suit that country's demands, they just wont release it in your country at all.

Sorry but thems the breaks.

You'll have to get way more than the entirety of the EU on board with this to make any change. Youd have to get China and the US on board at the same time

If you target only one of them, that country will decline because it would just argue "you'd fuck up our industry and everyone would leave to [other country] for sales"

And good luck getting the EU, US, and China to all simultaneously agree to this sort of thing, lol.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, hey: it worked to make Apple finally drop their proprietary charging connector. As long as the cost of losing business in the EU is higher than designing an EOL transition for games and hiring developers to actually do it, it's in their best interests.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As long as the cost of losing business in the EU is higher than designing an EOL transition for games and hiring developers to actually do it, it’s in their best interests.

    I hate to break it to you but the EU is not that strong of a market lol

    People seriously underestimate the cost of this sort of thing, companies do NOT want to hand out copies of their proprietary software to the public.

    The pretty much always have tonnes of important shit baked into it that still gets used in their newer software, so even if its old stuff, it still has bits and bobs in it that matter for their newer stuff they just put out.

    But also just, in general, companies are not gonna be chill with people demanding they give them a copy of their backend software. It's just not gonna happen, and the EU is definitely the weaker of the 3 major markets. Companies are just gonna go "lol, now you don't get to play online I guess" instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    But also just, in general, companies are not gonna be chill with people demanding they give them a copy of their backend software. It's just not gonna happen, and the EU is definitely the weaker of the 3 major markets. Companies are just gonna go "lol, now you don't get to play online I guess" instead.

    Good thing they can just put an expiration date after which the game isn't guaranteed to be supported instead, then.

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