Jason Thor Hall / PirateSoftware / Maldavius Figtree / DarkSphere Creations / Maldavius / Thorwich / Witness X / @PotatoSec - Incompetent Furry Programmer, Blizzard Nepo Baby, Lies about almost every thing in his life, Industry Shill, Carried by his father, Hate boner against Ross Scott of Accursed Farms, False Flagger

[God's Own Sling]

You lost, Jason, you absolute FAGGOT. Get rekt.

 

[Maeis]

I'm thinking on going for a Freeman's Mind binge, who's with me?

Been a while since I did that. Let's get started.

"Ah, geez, I'm running late!"

 

[Allied-Mastercomputer]

I just thought about it, i know its an ever increasingly diminished part of game sales but how will STG effect console fags?

Are you retarded? The whole initiative began over the cancellation of services for The Crew, a console racing game. The whole point is to preserve the user’s ability to play the product they’ve purchased.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

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Thanks for the live footage.
Would be nice to have this play at the top of the site, @Null
Our man Ross deserves it.

edit: oh well, I was late.

 

[Kamen Rider Faiz]

damn, I expected for it to reach the goal on friday at the earliest, and we're still on the third day of JULAY
can't wait to see how many signatures it'll get by the end of the month

 

[Sneed Lurker]

Can we make it to 1,488,000 signatures before the deadline?

 

[MetalGear - E-Hero Neos]

I'm thinking on going for a Freeman's Mind binge, who's with me?

I've been binging Game Dungeon for the last three days. Might go for some FM. Like in the good old times.

Yo I'm lazy spazstic , who knows how to set up those cytube watch along they do for the movie night.
Just set up all of game dungeons and Freemans mind and get a watch party marathon till WE Achieve TOTAL MALD DESTRUCTION

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

the health bar increases for a round 2 i guess

 

[Spud gun]

Total Chud victory!

 

[Psychonaut]

I’m glad The Stop Killing Games signatures hit its goal. I think having the ability to preserve the stuff you like should be common and I’m glad it’s getting support. It also may just be me but I could also see this potential of this outside of video games. Imagine having this with movies / shows and even software.

 

[Common Carp]

All it took was a smug, irritating little furfag to bring a whole continent together. Sempr Fi Lads, we fucking did it!

 

[Hooked on phobics]

Thanks for the live footage.
Would be nice to have this play at the top of the site, @Null
Our man Ross deserves it.
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That isn't BAD, but I think this ones better

Made in honour of Ross' victory

 

[BathTubShine]

Get fucked narcissistic furfag loser
Keep Malding!

 

[NoReturn]

Late and gay I know but what exactly makes PirateSoftware worse than any other pompous furfag?

Forgive me for referencing something involving Harry Potter, but it's the "Umbridge Effect".

Most people don’t know killers. Most people don’t know sadistic torturers. We know these things are wrong, and we can intellectually hate characters that engage in these actions, but it doesn’t hit on a gut level because there’s no real comparison here. Without that gut level reaction, it’s hard to have a visceral level of hatred that a truly despicable character can invoke.​

- Source​

Your average pompous furfag is obnoxious, sure, but people like them don't tend to affect your day to day life. It's one thing to see them walking around your city during a convention, or online acting like a jackass, but by and large you can just ignore them.

Mald, however... Mald is the kind of creature that is completely composed of traits and behaviors that people do tend to run into during their daily lives in a negative way.

• He's the nepo baby who refuses to admit how much of his life was handed to him.
• He's the guy who refuses to admit when he's wrong.
• He's the guy who always has to be right. (This isn't rephrasing the above, these can be two different things, and he's both)
• He's the coworker or "friend" who acts all chill until he snaps at you and starts acting like a scary dickhead.
• He's the classmate who leaves you with doing the bulk of the writing on the group project, but acts like he did all the work because he was the "leader" and made the PowerPoint look pretty.

He also strikes me as the type of guy who smirks at you as he leaves the bathroom after not washing his hands after taking a piss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jDPsBh2AyQ&t=3646s

I've been binging Game Dungeon for the last three days. Might go for some FM. Like in the good old times.

Been a while since I did that. Let's get started.

"Ah, geez, I'm running late!"

I'll join you guys.

BAMP BAMP TSSSCH
BAMP BAMP TSSSCH

 

[VanClyde]

Ross Chastain had the hail melon moment, where he made a legendary pass grinding the wall to go from 10th to 5th place on the very last lap, giving him an entry into the championship.

Ross Scott just had his hail jason moment, where he made a legendary social grind to bring the the signature count from 400k to a million+ on the very last month to bring this to the european commission.

( stole from @Forklift Certified )

Theres something about people named Ross puling through at the last possible stretch

 

[Gorby-Chan]

Hell yeah! Thanks for the early 4th of July Eurobros, keep that fag seething.

 

[culk]

Are you retarded? The whole initiative began over the cancellation of services for The Crew, a console racing game. The whole point is to preserve the user’s ability to play the product they’ve purchased.

"The Crew" is not the inciting thing for this. Throughout ross's videos over 10 years he's been pissed about games being killed, and over 6 years ago he made this video https://youtu.be/tUAX0gnZ3Nw. In an interview here https://youtu.be/sJuKpajV1XI he says that "The Crew" being killed was just a good example for what he was already gonna do.

 

[R9K Insurgent]

As someone who owned The Crew and who enjoyed it quite a lot, very cool to see that petition hit it's goal, hope it does some good.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

"The Crew" is not the inciting thing for this.

It kinda is, as it was the thing that REALLY got him into overdrive about this stuff. The crew was what made something snap in him to push hard

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

To have an end-of-life plan from what I remember. Meaning someone develops/publishes a live service game, they must have a plan to make the game available in some way for consumers after they cut service. Some could make it available as a single player game in the case of a gacha game, or in the case of a multiplayer game they can let users host their servers or make it peer-to-peer.
Edit: Now that the petition has gained a lot of traction people can start discussing with some degree of seriousness how developers/publishers can achieve that.

Yea, to add to this, the nature of legislation means its fairly unlikely they define exactly how it must be executed in given contexts, they're more likely to define the specific outcome. Could be as simple as "The game can be played in a manner similar to when the service was provided by the publisher. Could be as advanced as "The files and software required to operate the service as it was when the publisher ran it must be released". Most likely leaning towards the former, as politicians are again adverse to mandating actions, just outcomes.

For the most part, expect this to manifest in two different ways. For games with native singleplayer elements, patching out always online is pretty easy. For games with multiplayer elements, its as simple as releasing compiled server binaries, maybe even server code - Lots of games already do this, if you got steam, search "Server" in your steam library, you've probably got a hundred of the fucking things available to download for games you own. For people who want to jump in and "Ackshually" with concerns about 3rd party libraries and the publishers lack of right to distribute it, its really not a problem - If this becomes law, the first thing these libraries will do is make sure their codebase is as useable as possible for this law, such as End Of Service provisions for distribution. They make their money off selling these libraries to make doing work easier, being EU EoS compatible is just a new marketing line in their eyes. Those ones likely won't be full open code releases, just binaries, but that's fine enough.

But do keep in mind that they would also meet the legal expectation if they simply offered servers as a service, so rather than letting the community self host, they would allow them to pay to keep it up. This is an unlikely path long term because it brings legal obligations long term that they won't want to deal with, but short term its the exact kind of "Make them regret it" action you could see happening. Infrastructure already exists like this, one of the recent battlefield games locked private servers behind a paywall program.

I just thought about it, i know its an ever increasingly diminished part of game sales but how will STG effect console fags?

Interesting thought experiment. Short answer is that there's nothing preventing console games from using 3rd party servers, and the always online removal of singleplayer elements is just as feasible. What'll be interesting is how the multiplayer subscription service factors into this - Will Xbox Live and PSN be ok with random servers connecting to their hardware? I can't say, we don't really have precedent for it at scale that I know of.

i wonder how the law will impact steam's early access once it's written. if it does end up applying, it would be funny to see him have to scramble to actually work on his game and finish it before it's implemented, lest he consneed to the gamers.

No real change, continuing to work as sold doesn't mandate finishing the game technically, just means it has to not be broken by your actions when you chose to leave it.