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You know what? I'm tired of unintended consequences fear mongering. You know what else had a tons of unintended consequences? Mandating seat belts. This is the
by braiamp 5mo ago
You know what? I'm tired of unintended consequences fear mongering. You know what else had a tons of unintended consequences? Mandating seat belts. This is the industry kicking and crying because they don't want to be told that they can't abuse the consumer blatantly. Joke Bloke would still be able to release their game without wondering if this kind of law exists because the law will never apply to them. These kind of laws are targeting a massive abuse by big companies with a bag of money to figure it out.
- phendrenad2 5mo ago[flagged]
- mzajc 5mo agoPlease do not needlessly denigrate the poster you're responding to.
- thomastjeffery 5mo agoYour vain appeal to objectivity is just a steelman argument. emotional != biased emotionless != unbiased Hard things are often worthwhile.
- phendrenad2 5mo agoI agree wholeheartedly, which is why I didn't imply bias.
- fyredge 5mo agoUnintended consequences is the price of progress. The alternative is to continue farming by hand, and carry after from the river for your daily needs. We legislate away unintended consequences, that is the job of government. We put in laws and remove them if they are unsuitable. Analysis paralysis does no one any good.
- auggierose 5mo agoI don't see how you can legislate away a move to subscriptions. That's not unintended consequences, that is an entirely foreseeable and direct consequence.
- grayhatter 5mo agowhich will also encourage more people to switch to indie games who don't abuse their users. $company might see this requirement, to treat people with respect, as a threat to their business model and will respond by becoming worse. Is only a problem if you're not willing or able to introduce additional requirements to compel ethical behavior. The problem isn't companies are evil and we're hopeless to stop them so it's better to bend over. The problem is we're unwilling to force companies to behave ethically. Its more profitable to be evil. And it's not technically illegal to do so.... yet. (It's also more profitable to just steal.)
- account42 5mo agoGames that are sunset without a way for the players to continue playing it are already effectively subscriptions. The whole point is to force companies to stick to what they are selling. Having companies advertise their games correctly would be a win as it would give their already honest competition making games that you can actually play indefinitely a huge advantage compared to the current situation.
- phendrenad2 5mo agoYou can't think of any cases where unintended consequences dominated the equation and made the initiative completely detrimental? I can. The cookie consent popups we all have to click on every website started out with good intentions, wouldn't you agree? And how has that overall turned out? Are we educating people about privacy or are we just producing pointless pixel updates and burning the ozone layer?
- fyredge 5mo agoThen table a bill to remove that legislation, that is entirely possible. The point being that all legislation have consequences, but it is better to move forward with the best step we could take than to stand still and do nothing. Just as there is iteration in software, we should iterate our laws. That is what a functioning government looks like.