Post #1798016

2026-04-22 18:27 UTC

This is a masterclass in “pick your one thing in life and focus on that.” I’m highly pessimistic that the spirit of this legislation, which I wholly support, can ever be enshrined in law with enough specificity that it works the way we want it to in the cases where we need it to, without becoming a truly undue burden on small developers or forcing all publishers to just work around it in some way: like taking everything to a subscription model going forward.

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@TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 23:30

We’ve had the technology since stone ages, quit lying about this so called burden. All it takes is to not be greedy.

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@CybranM@feddit.nu 2026-04-23 07:47

I don’t see how this would put any additional burden on smaller devs. Small teams usually don’t make always-online type games because they’re very complex and expensive

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@jj4211@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 12:50

I imagine you see the undue burden as a mandate to keep running the game servers yourself when you have no income to do so. Once upon a time, the norm for exclusively online games was to provide a hostable server so that any third party could host, because the game companies didn’t want to bother with hosting themselves, so at most they owned or outsourced a hosted registry of running servers, and volunteers ran instances. Then big publishers figured out that controlling the servers and keeping the implementation in-house was a good way to control the lifespan of games, and a number of games kept it closed. So the remedy is to return to allowing third party hosting, potentially including hooks for a third party registry for running game servers if we are talking more ephemeral online instances like you’d have in shooters. One might allow for keeping the serving in-house and only requiring third party serving upon plan to retire the in-house game, but there’s really no reason in that scheme to keep the hosting exclusively in-house since you can’t control things by shutting it down anymare.

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