• jjpamsterdam@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    Industry lobby group opposes consumer protection movement. In other news: water is wet.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Yes, it will restrict developer… well, really, mostly publisher choice, in 99% of the scenarios this will actually affect, if you go by amount of money involved.

    Specifically their choice to Thanos snap all of your MTX purchased items out of existence, their choice to EoL a game without having some kind of at least mostly functional final patch and/or release of a stripped down dedi server binary.

    Yep.

    They’re right.

    It would restrict those choices.

    Like how we have lemon laws that restrict the choice of a car dealer/mfg to sell you a catastrophically broken piece of crap.

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    “We understand that it can be disappointing for players but, when it does happen, the industry ensures that players are given fair notice of the prospective changes in compliance with local consumer protection laws.”

    LOL

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    5 months ago

    The choices of developers or the corporations that enslave developers? It’s not the same.