For example, indie games like Objects in Space. It was Early Access and ran into technical issues which led to funding issues as they could only work so long on it. Its broken essentially. But it doesn’t matter if the project was beyond their scope of skill or they ran out of money, they would be forced to pay to fix it.

First off, that studio will not be forced to go back and fix their game. Western democratic governments, including the EU, works on the basis that ex post facto laws are invalid. The game is already dead and abandoned from your telling, so there would be no expectation to revive it.

The true solution for studios making new games in the future is to implement exit strategies for multiplayer implementation early on in development. And for single player games, much of that exit strategy is to not require login servers after the game is abandoned.

And to address your specific example, there is one option that is extremely cheap and easy to implement that will certainly pass requirements: release the sorce code. If a EA game is truly so bungled that it’s better off abandoned, studios and publishers will always have the option to fully abandon it.

The moment that petition started to get close to 1M, you know publishers started turning gears to block future legislation.

You’re forgetting this is the EU, it’s significantly less susceptible to industry lobbying than the US. If it wasn’t the GDPR wouldn’t exist and Apple would still be using their proprietary chargers on all new iPhones.

The points needed to be concise for the purpose of the fact finding committee.

Have you not read the petition? I doubt it could be anymore concise in its language while still being possible to pass. You can’t specify exact implementations for games post-abandonment because any single solution will not work for every game.

There really is no solid argument against what I’ve said.

That is a claim befitting an egotistical fool. But at least now you can’t complain that nobody has addressed your concerns, as you claimed in your first comment.

Perhaps, which I think is really unfortunate.

I’m not concerned with it. I’ve looked into it a bit, and it seems like PirateSoftware ruined his own reputation. It just took his very visible cockup in that WoW raid for people to realize that he lies a lot and refuses to acknowledge when he’s wrong.

I think he misread or misunderstood what the petition was about

Possibly. I’m not going to speculate on that because it’s not really important.

But he’s not going to be making a bunch of accounts on random message boards like Lemmy to try to kill it.

I doubt it as well. I’m more suspicious of corporate astroturfing. And Lemmy isn’t too small of a target for it, since astroturfing is pretty cheap.

Perhaps, which I think is really unfortunate.

I’m not concerned with it. I’ve looked into it a bit, and it seems like PirateSoftware ruined his own reputation. It just took his very visible cockup in that WoW raid for people to realize that he lies a lot and refuses to acknowledge when he’s wrong.

I think he misread or misunderstood what the petition was about

Possibly. I’m not going to speculate on that because it’s not really important.

But he’s not going to be making a bunch of accounts on random message boards like Lemmy to try to kill it.

I doubt it as well. I’m more suspicious of corporate astroturfing. And Lemmy isn’t too small of a target for it, since astroturfing is pretty cheap.

And what is your argument against the petition? All it says is that developers need to leave their game in some playable state for those who laid for it, with several options offered as examples

This is exactly my point for the post, though your take is better worded

It’s fine to be friends with your coworkers, but it shouldn’t be an expectation

Political extremists are more likely to consistently vote. When fewer people vote overall due to apathy, that makes it far easier for extremists to take control

OP’s argument for being broke is that they live with their parents and thus can’t get a job. I’m pointing out that that doesn’t hold up, because living with their parents doesn’t exclude anyone from getting a job.

I never said that there weren’t valid reasons to not have a job or be broke. I’m saying the specific reasons they gave don’t make sense.

Now that we’ve established that, I’d appreciate you not putting words in my mouth

Nothing, but that doesn’t stop people with Americabrain from making terrible comments here.

The EU has a record of actually passing pro-consumer legislation such as the GDPR and forcing companies to use standardized cables. Claiming that nothing is going to happen because of lobbying doesn’t hold up nearly as well as it does in the US

You literally couldn’t be more wrong

im young enough to live with family so i cant really get a job.

This doesn’t really track, or it’s just worded weird. You can start working part-time at age 14 in most states in the US. Now, you could be a student who’s too busy with school/sports to get a job, but if you have time to pirate I doubt that’s a liting factor.

Now, I don’t personally care what your actual case is. I’m just pointing out that your claims don’t add up.

This is an EU petition, not the US.

Doomers coming out in force today

Nightshade salad is just salsa

Worker protections and their enforcement have improved in recent years, but things still aren’t fully there yet.

You’d think they’d have fixed it faster, since it’s the primary factor in why so few Japanese people are having kids

It’s a spin on a satirical 4Chan post where the OP had to chug “verification cans” of to do various things with their XBox

And this, dear lemmings, is why fascism and authoritarianism have been gaining traction the past few years

TBF, does the problem specifically state it has to take place on Earth and not some theoretical planet with contiguous landmass?

This. I’m scrambling to get all my shit sorted out on my desktop before switching over

The eggplant looks like an egg when it’s growing.

Now I’m picturing the “long egg” meme, but growing on a plant. How cool would it be for eggplants to essentially be a giant, hardboiled egg inside?

It’s just weird that the post asks people why they use Brave over Firefox/Librewolf and I get downvoted for giving an honest answer.

If Firefox added tab groups for mobile I’d start the (unfortunately slow) transition over to a fork that respects privacy by default.

But unfortunately, Mozilla keeps insisting that it’s “hard to make tab groups in a way that’s intuitive and efficient for the end user” when Chromium already has that as an example. So I still use Brave, because I need my tab groups.