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

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derapples said:
Everything this guy said I must have seen a dozen times before. It must be so frustrating for Ross and everyone associated with SKG to have to respond to the same 5 arguments over and over and over again.
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A lot of it is "govmint telling me what to do",I'm pretty sure Ross and the boys have said they would have picked literally any other option to save games but government regulations but nothing else will stop the games being killed.
 
Thiletonomics said:
In the case of bombs that flop super hard, i.e. Concord, it's probably to ensure that they can secure tax write offs for them. Does attempts of pirate servers of dead games invalidates an attempt at such tax write offs, which was why Sony was super quick to DMCA people that make Concord private servers?
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To expand on this, they want the ability to shut down games for the broad reason of more money.

There is an unwritten understanding with big game publishers that they all want the available pie of customers to be as big as possible. If they leave their old game in a playable state some small % of that games playerbase will not carryover to newer games. But if they kill the game, you’re now only left with the options of buy a new game or stop gaming.

They want you to constantly be buying new product, it’s the industry with the strongest push towards “you will own nothing and will like it”.
 
There Is Light At The End said:
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There Is Light At The End said:
What did this fellow even made? A shitty furfag VN on renpy? That absolutely requires constant Internet connection and so hard to patch out. My heart is bleeding for his plight
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in one of those replies he specifically says "w-well yeah it's possible, but I'm not doing it with the government holding a shotgun to my head."

What even is the remedy if gamedevs don't offer refunds or don't provide games at end of service? Does the government sieze the assets you're going to throw in the trash anyway? At that point just seems like a dumb fag move to resist.
 
Gamergate Retiree said:
in one of those replies he specifically says "w-well yeah it's possible, but I'm not doing it with the government holding a shotgun to my head."

What even is the remedy if gamedevs don't offer refunds or don't provide games at end of service? Does the government sieze the assets you're going to throw in the trash anyway? At that point just seems like a dumb fag move to resist.
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The game then gets taken off services like Steam, dev and their company have their reputation run thru the mud, and another PirateSoftware lolcow is born. If someone wants to go down that route, why stop them?
 
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