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Ritchie Torres:
Selling illegally occupied land in Palestine
Selling game licenses instead of ownership
He’s mad they took away his treats
What do you want to bet that Ritchie Torres personally had a bad experience with losing access to some digital game. If we have someone illegally occupy and auction off his home, then maybe we can shift his position on Palestine as well!
The Crew was his personal 9/11. No seriously, the only reason you can get an American pol to care is if something has affected them personally.
I think we’re never going to see the end of spam phone calls until Congresspeople no longer have their own secret Do Not Call registry that actually works.
Ninja thriller where both Nintendo and Sony independently send their own clans of shinobi after Ritchie Torres and they end up fighting each other instead of taking him out, and he just happily bumbles along Mr. Magoo-style, totally oblivious to all these martial arts action sequences that are going on in the background
I wonder if enough laws like this pass, will it force devs to reconsider the calculus on releasing online games? “Functional” could entail paying for a server to run the game forever, or dramatically changing your backend to let people host their own.
It wouldn’t entail either of those, or at least doesn’t have to. Idk about this specific law, but the SKG movement has made it clear that companies saying “here you go, you figure it out” and posting their unmodified backend source code/programs and leaving it to end users to figure out how to run it is acceptable. The big problem without it is that a lot of stuff in modern games is just straight up encrypted and impossible to decrypt, so once the central server is gone you’re completely screwed.
Monkey’s paw: They just all turn into live service games like MMORPGs.
All future AAA launches are rental access to servers where even some of the single-player mode is run and as soon as you stop paying the monthly fee you lose access with publishers just offering an up-front deal of $80 for a year and maybe lowering that to half or a quarter of that going forward in future. (Things like live service MMORPGs are almost always exempt from these things as you can’t own the server infrastructure or code they never give you).
Once income no longer covers server costs with adequate profit overhead they shut down the servers, hand players the encrypted server builds with no info how to run it and rather than the problem of technically owning only a license to a game but being able to crack it if necessary down the line you now have a situation where games are just lost forever and even the publisher can’t bring them back because they deleted some of the server specific data while retaining the art and basic game logic assets in case they want to make a remaster.
