Stop Killing Games (EU edition) - Moldman vs. Publishers

[Core i7-3770K]

So the EU intends to continue being useless, as it has always been? Color me surprised. Ross should have commissioned a bullshit quack study about how killing games causes greenhouse gas emissions.

 

[Bill The Fucker]

people already make fan characters and works that rake in money

Fan games routinely get shut down with a c&d, even if they use 100% original assets. Generally the only protection they have is obscurity and the grace of the ip holder

 

[MMOOBB]

Here's a relevant clip from that video, going over how they're still making progress with the EU Parliament regardless of the commission's decision:
skg clip.mp4
(This clip is a minute and a half long. Can @Null pay attention that long?)

It's mind boggling how everyone is losing their minds, but hasn't seen what Ross has already said about the issue.

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

The feature headline is somewhat misleading. They're not doing anythign conclusive yet the things they propose to do ARE a step (a small one) towards preservation.

 

[Cryogonal2]

However, to address players' concerns, the Commission has committed to taking several steps.
First, it will initiate an exchange with the video game industry and consumer representatives with the aim to draw up an industry code of conduct on managing video games' ‘end of life'.

"surely if we suck cock hard enough and get the money shot we want, it'll all work out for us. not for you, but for us. a million more lawsuits for valve btw"

Here's a relevant clip from that video, going over how they're still making progress with the EU Parliament regardless of the commission's decision:
skg clip.mp4
(This clip is a minute and a half long. Can @Null pay attention that long?)

lmao

 

[Fatpacks]

It's mind boggling how everyone is losing their minds, but hasn't seen what Ross has already said about the issue.

Because it doesn't matter. This will end, as it always does, in TPTB winning. This has been yet another completely and utterly humiliating defeat for people who actually want to make the world even 1% less shitty.

 

[Radicalist]

Anyone who is against piracy at this point is the most niggerlicious of nigger cattle

Sad part about this is "i'll just pirate hehe" don't work for dead games. Only if an autist reverse engineers the source code, then you can say you got your wish.

inb4 i'll pirate non-online games:
and they'll make every game online only, live-service shit. That's the reason live service as a trend first started i believe. When you open a slav's steam account, it just has CSGO, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT etc. Why? Others can be pirated easily. That incentivizes the developers to only make live service shit.

I'm not anti-piracy btw, just doesn't work as a protest in this instance.

 

[No Shot Bucko]

My biggest condolences

For the record I hate every single EU gov, entity and officials who turn down this movement clearly for the biggest interest of those big game companies to not FORCE THEM to make endofservice patches for everyone who purchase their game to keep enjoying it without permanent shutdown restrictions.

Big condolences to any eurobros and sis who still gave their best effort to gather as many signatures for the sake of a true cause for the people.

It's always about control for these companies and how they want to force the consumer to move on into the next game to repeat the same process just for lining their pockets. That's all it matters for these greedy motherfuckers and anyone including the faggot ferret fucker who's an industry plant and a nepobaby defending any company's motto ´´You will own NOTHING and be HAPPY!´´ deserve to be put in a alog for being such a disgusting piece of shit.

Anyways. Rise the Pirate flag up high and remember just to keep putting on every single big game company's throats out there:

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing

 

[Techno-primitivist]

Imagine pouring that much time and money into an activist campaign, getting so emotionally invested that you erupt in fits of rage across the internet, all because you believe it is some fundamental right to keep playing The Crew, Concord, or Anthem.

 

[moocow]

potentially even make money off it

Yes, thanks for regurgitating one of the industry's main talking points, despite this exact thing being explicitly disavowed as part of the intent of SKG.

Pro-tip: that was already illegal and not being sought as something to be made legal. Also, it's already being done without industry consent anyway, literally every fucking time a boxed copy of a game with no online component gets sold by a vendor today.

Fucking industry plants.

 

[Gamergate Retiree]

 

[MeltyTW]

Fan games routinely get shut down with a c&d, even if they use 100% original assets. Generally the only protection they have is obscurity and the grace of the ip holder

stuff that doesnt even belong to the claimer also routinely get claimed. dc now just owns the shazam ip because they arguged back then that a completely different character, a boy who becomes a superhero by shouting shazam after the name of a wizard he met in the subway and very much not an alien, was the same as superman. this was despite shazam aka captain marvel actually outselling superman at points and being more popular.

 

[crowabunga]

Here's a relevant clip from that video, going over how they're still making progress with the EU Parliament regardless of the commission's decision:
skg clip.mp4
(This clip is a minute and a half long. Can @Null pay attention that long?)

Hoping Mald just reads the headline (like I did until I saw this post) and starts gloating only for the EU to rugpull him, so that we can get some more milk.

 

[ShitLurker]

EU fumbles the easiest W of the year. Amazing.

Brussels Delenda Est.

Letting browns rape it's population, duh.

 

[Science Accurate Catboy]

The only good thing the EU ever did was getting USB C on the iphone. Interesting to see they can't do second

 

[mango_reseller]

To nobody's suprise, the commission will do nothing. The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially. This is due, also, to existing intellectual property rights.

Damn that's wild, did they know that according to Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, every European citizen has a right to privacy? Because the Digital ID they're pushing seems to go against that. Do those rights not matter? Is it all arbitrary? Will Europeans ever do something about it?

 

[HopperTopper]

Every time something about SKG comes out tons of brown skinned trolls somehow make /v/ worse by "ironically" defending the corporate under the guise of stereotypical freedom land patriotism and anti-comunist action in other words "yore a commie if you like SKG or something"

It's bots and industry shills. Genuinely, it's not just on /v/, this is one of the most blatantly astroturfed subjects I've ever seen. Go to any thread on reddit for instance, like the current one on r/games, and it'll be filled with countless <1 year old <10k karma accounts with auto generated names and their post histories hidden, all blatantly parroting the ESA's talking points, lying about SKG, and generally smugly arguing against their own self interests. If you google their usernames to get around the hidden post history thing, you'll see that a lot of them even go around in like a dozen subreddits mostly all posting in threads about SKG. It is truly shameless and extremely obvious what they're doing, but it makes sense when you remember that it's something that inconveniences a large tech related industry reliant on social media.

 

[Diggus Bickus]

To nobody's suprise, the commission will do nothing

I told you faggots this'd happen and you boo'd me out of the thread because 1 STOPKILLILION SIGNATURES TO THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON THORFAGGOT BTFOOOOOOOOO'D

Expectations high = Fell for it again award

 

[12345678901]

OMG EU didn't outlaw online games?? Turns out even EU bureaucrats are smarter than modern day r/gamers.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Imagine pouring that much time and money into an activist campaign, getting so emotionally invested that you erupt in fits of rage across the internet, all because you believe it is some fundamental right to keep playing The Crew, Concord, or Anthem.

Imagine you go to a fancy furniture store and drop $5,000 cash on a beautiful, custom-built wooden dining table. You haul it home, set it up, and start using it for family dinners. It's clearly yours now — you paid full price, took possession, it's sitting in your house.
But buried in the 47-page "purchase agreement" (that you clicked "I Agree" on at checkout) is this clause: "Buyer acknowledges that this is a licensed table experience. The manufacturer retains perpetual rights to the design, materials, and functionality. In the event the manufacturer discontinues the 'Table Live Service,' or if you violate any terms (including but not limited to 'unauthorized modifications' like putting a tablecloth on it they don't approve), representatives of the company may enter your property at any time, with or without notice, to reclaim, disable, or physically destroy the table and any related components."
Six months later, the company decides physical dining tables are old-fashioned and they're pivoting to subscriptions for "digital table experiences." They send a crew who kicks in your door (perfectly legal under the contract you agreed to), smashes your $5,000 table to pieces with sledgehammers in front of your family, and leaves the rubble. Cops show up? The company shows the contract. You're told "tough luck, you only bought a license to use the table, not the table itself."
You complain online and someone says: "Just make your own table lol" or "It's the company's IP, they can do what they want."