wow i cant believe every mmo just suddenly exploded and also its illegal to make and sell them now
This is the world I want. This is what I voted for.
Total MMO Death.
Or how about just not having retarded restrictive laws in place? Instead of relying on like a central legalisative body of unelected communists to decide when to make a new tech mandatory or not.
See, I'm anti-regulation, too. But "live service" is a scam, and everyone knows it.
Libertarian capitalism requires a strong moral foundation, or it falls apart. You need to know what is in your rational self-interest, which sometimes
isn't "let's fuck our customers over in hopes of a little more money".
Had companies simply committed to producing quality games that catered to the desires and best interests of their customer base, no regulation would be necessary. That's the "free market"; you provide quality, competitive goods and services at the best prices in response to market needs. Instead, game companies chose to collude with one another in producing a highly restrictive, anti-consumer digital environment that introduces artificial scarcity and actively precludes their customer's desires - such as the desire to OWN WHAT YOU BUY, the desire to mod and tinker to your heart's content, and the desire to continue using what you buy, even after the company flops and kills their servers two years in.
It's really fucking easy: you have an MMO or online featured game, you give players an option to host their own server. It's not a new concept, it's not hard to code, and even if you're dead scared of piracy, you can at least have the common fucking decency to facilitate player hosting as part of the final patch before your DEI practices catch up to you and cause you to close shop for good.
Or, you get assraped by "unelected communists". Pick one.
(also, it's kind of funny to see the pro-industry side act so worried about regulation, when the gaming industry has itself leaned on regulations for ages - especially IP law, which is one of the most bloated and commie regulatory practices in history)
2: SKG is not concerned about the distribution of abandoned games, so distributing it without permission from the IP rights holder is still not legal (piracy)
Not concerned
yet.
God Willing, brother, one day we will get there.