Post #1737145

2026-04-14 12:50 UTC

There’s just too many liabilities there. A lot of these games they have routines to update the entire software OR simply where they can run arbitrary scripts or things like that. Arbitrary code execution would be a huge problem. Even if it wasn’t an automatic thing and you could simply push a message out to people, “hey you need to update this, you know we don’t have the money Ubisoft has, but we’re making some updates anyways because we love y’all! So go download this… And please donate to keep the show going!” Bam. Pwned. Things like maintaining usernames and passwords being passed off to Independent third parties? The users would fucking revolt at such an idea. This is one of those things that I get sounds really good in the perfect utopian society where there’s no bad actors. But the reality is people want your cake.

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@QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 2026-04-14 13:41

You’re right that there should be concerns about connecting old games to a random server that can push software updates. However, I think you’re misunderstanding what the SKG movement is as well as what this legislation is asking for. It’s not asking for companies to leave the servers running indefinitely. It’s definitely not telling them to just allow a 3rd party to take over the databases with all of the information there. It’s telling companies to provide information upfront about what consumers can expect when the game servers are officially shut down. It’s telling them to have a plan for shutting the game down. It provides some options for what those plans could look like: - Offline mode (and communicate what features will no longer be available) - Allow private servers - Refunds The current version of this bill has an exception for free games and subscription only based games.

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@dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-15 01:53

Dude. I play BAR. It’s literally open source spin off of a popular video game. It updates itself. It has been running for like over a decade. It is like the iron manning of this model. Abd it works! Its great! No problems! You act like corpos cant brick your shit with mandatory updates, which may or may not run on pure vibes. Do you remember the past two years?

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@BillCheddar@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 04:08

Oh, come on. Any game with a sufficiently sized community will also have, as part of that community, enough nerds to run private servers if need be. Hell, WoW is 20 years old and still has to sue to shut down private servers. There’s plenty of ways to make this happen.

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