Video Games Europe, a trade association that represents a bunch of major game publishers, have issued a statement pushing back against Stop Killing Games.
  • PunnyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 minutes ago

    1: You’ve never owned a video game in your life, unless you were the owner of the copyright, you possessed a licensed copy (including physical copies). That has to change before any other real concrete changes can occur.

    2: Online video games are a totally different beast over single player games. Besides direct competition with themselves, there has to be a sustained effort to maintain those servers, while also staying beholden to the copyright holders.

    • Look at Project 1999 EverQuest (a “classic” server for a 26+ year game). It almost never reaches 2000 concurrent players, and that requires permission from Daybreak to run as intended. The Hero’s Journey is a different EQ project that is in litigation with Daybreak right now. Project Quarm has been reticent about keeping its servers running during the THJ legal proceedings.

    As much as we might want to keep games alive for posterity, we have to figure out a process for online games, and that seems like it’s gonna be a massive uphill battle.

  • Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21·
    5 hours ago

    If lobbyists are fighting it you know it’s scaring them! Fuck your overreach of control, I bought a game not a service.

  • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
    15·
    6 hours ago

    It’s a big problem from a money making perspective. We’re basically asking the game companies to compete with themselves.

    The patient gamer in me sees a future where blue archive is completely free 2 play with no paywalls. :D

    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
      101·
      4 hours ago

      You mean like how the blockbuster movie industry is in a crisis because most people prefer watching VHS of movies from the 1980s rather than watching the latest Marvel movie?

      That doesn’t happen, that’s not how any cultural medium works. Enthusiasts keeping old stuff running are a minority. Also they are likely to consume a lot, give them a new take on what they like and they’ll gladly try it… If it’s good enough.

      Of course, that’s the real problem. Some companies dream of wiping out everything that came before so their newest enshittified predatory crap doesn’t suffer from the comparison.