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Geez man. I've seen your replies in this thread multiple times. At this point, I have to wonder: why are you so against legislating the actual sale of ownership of video games? How…

> Rent and Subscribe would NOT be clear because they imply ongoing payment. Yes, exactly. Video game distributors should be forced to choose a pricing model: "Sell", or "Rent". No …

Don't blame "regulation" on this, as if politicians do this because they're dogmatically "pro-regulation". That is not a real political stance, and it's childish to frame these bil…

Maybe, but regularly reframing regulations that people like (consumer protections, OSHA, lemon laws, etc.) as regulations will hopefully remind/reinforce that the whole "pro/anti r…

All your examples make clear to the customer that their access is temporary and conditional on their continued and ongoing payment, and that ownership of the good/service is retain…

I think you missed the truth behind this article: private Minecraft servers are not piracy, or illegal, in any sense. The EULA that server admins must agree to in order to use the …

That's right, my bad, I just meant that he's clearly doing just fine but said something very wrong instead

> A single match might require separate proprietary systems for matchmaking, player inventories, anti cheat, metrics tracking, and database management. Many of those come with lice…

The law isn't requiring that all online features of the game be available. Just a minimal viable product to play the base game online. No storefronts, no news prompts, no matchmaki…

> Second is an actual concern about this specific regulation. This is a concrete concern about the incentives it creates. Like I said in my OP comment, the problem with saying "thi…

Consider the infrastructure you're talking about. What parts of the game service would need to be implemented with micro services and/or calls to a cloud computing and storage? It …

For releases you're generally building it all at once in a merge request/deployment pipeline anyway

Please reread my initial comment. That's the assumption everyone is making, but WHY would it actually cost so much more? What's so much more expensive? Some games already do this, …

Why would releasing your server executable as a standalone be difficult to impossible to comply with the law? Many games already do this

> The most obvious example is pretty much any form of inviting a player/having idenities. The storage of users and inviting them is what brings in the scaling complexities in your …

> so they become more attractive than they currently are by definition. Please reread my comment. You're doing the exact same thing. You're saying this like it's a given, but it is…

Blanket dismissal of regulations is about as silly as a blanket dismissal of laws. Some laws are "bad", some are "good", but the point is who do they hurt, and who do they serve? R…

> I've seen some supporters of this style bill push for 'offline play' being a requirement. That seems a bit silly to my eyes, self-hosting a server seems sufficient. But not inclu…

> gives the game developers a perverse incentive to further embrace more exploitive revenue models such as free to play and subscription based services? This is what I fail to see …

Agreed that's what they were likely trying to do with that comment, and I'd argue the problem with it is that it fear-mongers about regulations while failing to actually scrutinize…

That is very far from the point, not only because what I meant was that some restaurants are not as good compared to others, but also because the connection between eating out vs e…

>See also car fuel economy standards that push car makers into killing the wagon market segment in favor of SUVs. All this says is that it's possible for regulations to have negati…

> Well, they're not selling you the game. They're licensing you the ability to play their game. I don't think that's a reasonable reading of what it means to "buy a game", by most …

I'm always shocked by how irrationally anti-regulation this site is. I have yet to see any explanation why this regulation would be, in practice, cost/legally prohibitive in any wa…

Consumer protection laws are "weird"? I'd hate to live in your world...