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This bill would likely cause game studios to release games exclusively via subscription plans as an unintended consequence.
If the government funds it I'd love to do maintenance on baldur's gate v1 for the rest of my life.
California is really trying to become Europe with regulation as their primary GDP.
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the idea of a "shutdown bill" is absurd and irrelevant to the law being discussed unless you are a scammer being forced to refund people.
I’m not sure what you mean. If you shut down a game and a law demands extra work to stand up a F2P server, who pays for that work? That’s the “shutdown bill” I’m talking about.
This is like a chemical plant complaining that they have to pay for cleanup when they shut down because they didn't follow proper procedures to prevent environmental harm while operating.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this law looks counter-productive if I'm reading it right. This is OBVIOUSLY going to push companies to make games into a subscription service to bypass the law even if they wouldn't have normally: > (b) This section does not apply to any of the following: > (1) Any subscription-based service that advertises or offers for sale access to any digital game solely for the duration of the s…
Found this quote from the game industry interesting and depressing: > Consumers receive a license to access and use a game, not an unrestricted ownership interest in the underlying work Could the game industry just side step this legislation by moving games entirely to a subscription model, with no upfront purchase? When they stop offering the subscription, you lose access to the game. Similar to how various online S…
Look, patches would be nice. I don't want a refund, I want to continue playing the game. What I'd prefer is modders not getting sued when they try to implement the online aspect for free, heck or paid at that stage. If the game is popular enough, the community tends to take care of it. Maybe some legal form of officially abandoning the game?
I love California for these laws because even though their jurisdiction is technically limited, it makes no sense for the companies to not make the changes available nation wide.
its such a bummer that because of laws like this, less games will be made. Most games dont ever make money and dont succeed. The alternative to companies shutting games down without supporting them is not them supporting them, it is them not making them in the first place or making them very expensive (price, ads, pay to play, etc.). The customer now has to pay a tax becasue of the cost this puts on game makers. This…
If a game can't exist without scamming the players then perhaps it shouldn't exist so that more honest developers can get those players.
If this law comes, why would games not just go full-subscription and circumvent this?
> The ESA also said the bill would impose unreasonable expectations on publishers regarding licensing rights for music or IP rights, which are often negotiated on a time-limited basis. “A legal requirement to keep games playable indefinitely could place publishers in an impossible position—forcing them to renegotiate licenses indefinitely or alter games in ways that may not be legally or technically feasible,” they w…