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7/6/2025, 9:30:47 AM
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The problem is that the definition of what entails "fully usable" falls then into the hand of old fucks who have never played a video game in their life and exclusively listen to lobbyists, instead of the consumer.
If you have a game that comes with dedicated servers and a server browser, which requires a master server, which hypothetically would also be included with the game, then how do you make sure that it is accessible enough where EVERY person game use them? 95% of gamers can't even setup a functioning and hardened server if it wasn't for other people trying to streamline it for them, but then you also have a master server now that you need to change yourself; which sure, you can just replace it with someone else hosting it, but under these guidelines it has to be completely idiot proof and it has to be accessible by blind people (there's a new law next year that requires software to be completely usable by blind people).
And it's worse if you take SKG at face value. In the proposal, SKG wants every game to have an "expiration date" conveyed to the consumer, which will be the end of it's life. Nothing more, nothing less. No company will promise a legally obligated LTS that ensures that your game can run on every feasible machine for 10 years and then put out easy to use tools to maintain the support yourself. Know what they will do? They'd much rather set the expiration date of the game to 1 year, then Steam has to pull the game because it is otherwise liable, and the company will just release the same game again for another 1 year that you have to pay for again.
Furthermore, this will retroactively affect games. Do you like Deus Ex? Yeah, that will be gone, because the developer for it is defunct and because the multiplayer doesn't work. You might say "oh but there's this guide to fix the master server!" and you would be right, but this is not something that the law will consider, because it's not from the dev and not do able without a guide
The problem is that the definition of what entails "fully usable" falls then into the hand of old fucks who have never played a video game in their life and exclusively listen to lobbyists, instead of the consumer.
If you have a game that comes with dedicated servers and a server browser, which requires a master server, which hypothetically would also be included with the game, then how do you make sure that it is accessible enough where EVERY person game use them? 95% of gamers can't even setup a functioning and hardened server if it wasn't for other people trying to streamline it for them, but then you also have a master server now that you need to change yourself; which sure, you can just replace it with someone else hosting it, but under these guidelines it has to be completely idiot proof and it has to be accessible by blind people (there's a new law next year that requires software to be completely usable by blind people).
And it's worse if you take SKG at face value. In the proposal, SKG wants every game to have an "expiration date" conveyed to the consumer, which will be the end of it's life. Nothing more, nothing less. No company will promise a legally obligated LTS that ensures that your game can run on every feasible machine for 10 years and then put out easy to use tools to maintain the support yourself. Know what they will do? They'd much rather set the expiration date of the game to 1 year, then Steam has to pull the game because it is otherwise liable, and the company will just release the same game again for another 1 year that you have to pay for again.
Furthermore, this will retroactively affect games. Do you like Deus Ex? Yeah, that will be gone, because the developer for it is defunct and because the multiplayer doesn't work. You might say "oh but there's this guide to fix the master server!" and you would be right, but this is not something that the law will consider, because it's not from the dev and not do able without a guide
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