Just imagine how much worse it would have been for sony with Concord in the EU if this law were reality. Flop a game, a live service game no less and then they would have to leave it in a playable state for like a couple hundred people that ever played it in the EU. I don't know how this law would work in this case. Would they be mandated to give out the server code that people could run their own servers?

It's really ambiguous how it would or how it would be revised work for games that are multiplayer only.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think the idea is more that if this were in place companies like Sony would be more incentivized to make sure they release games worth buying and playing, because if they didn't then they would have the financial burden of keeping them alive.

Side note: it doesn't require constant support from the developers. Just update it so players can run local servers, then it would technically still be playable. Of course I'm not a game dev so I'm sure thats more complicated than I'm making it sound, so that's again why they should focus on making games that are good to begin with.

[–] osprior@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think in Sony's case a reasonable alternative is to just refund, which is what they're doing anyways. There's no way a full refund would not be considered a true option, so I think the Concord side is a bit irrelevant to the primary issue of server owners shutting down servers for old games and keeping the money.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That's fair, I just think it's insane that we've gotten to this point in the first place.

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