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> Tell gamers how many months, for the advertised price, they will receive a guaranteed level of service and features for. Companies would just default to sayi
by DaSHacka 4mo ago
> Tell gamers how many months, for the advertised price, they will receive a guaranteed level of service and features for.
Companies would just default to saying "we reserve the right to shut off online connectivity at any time."
- ryandrake 4mo agoWell, then prevent that via regulation, too. It fatalistic to say "Well, we just can't possibly regulate companies, because they will surely find loopholes and avoid the regulation!" The answer is to write better, more thorough regulation that prevents loopholes. That shouldn't be such a tall order!
- 1123581321 4mo agoJust write a regulation that every game developer has to make a great game, not charge too much, support it for years, and give it away for free as soon as it's not popular. That way, we'll only have great games and archives of great free games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM
- throwaway85825 4mo ago'Great' is neither a legal or commercial term.
- protocolture 4mo agoThen just regulate the term Great. You can regulate everything. Just send in the troops to force gamedevs to only make Red Alert 2, objectively the government derived best possible game. Any deviation from Red Alert 2 will be severely punished.
- ryandrake 4mo agoNot sure what point this exaggeration is supposed to make. Just let companies do whatever they want and Buyer Beware?
- YurgenJurgensen 4mo agoForce them to list an effective annual subscription fee more prominently displayed than any “purchase” price. If they can’t guarantee any level of service, the license is assumed to be valid for one day, and their game ‘costs’ thirty thousand dollars.