Game Industry Vets Respond to SKG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc6PNP-_ilw
Key points:
10:30 - The petition has "terrifying vagueness".
12:00 - Says there are "opportunity cost problems", and that processes will cost way more.
14:30 - Says save transfers will be a lot of work and will cost a lot of money.
17:00 - Third-party contracts exist, there's literally nothing that can be done about that.
21:00 - The original video they're commentating used Animal Crossing as a good example of an end-of-life plan, guy disagrees, considers the final release as a separate sequel. Another guy says he likes it when studios do that, but doesn't want it mandated.
26:00 - Guy is horrified at the idea that a standing bug list would be curated, says devs are just trying to get games rushed out the door in a nominally playable state.
29:00 - Guy says he doesn't like imperatives of SKG because they focus on failure, and will have dev teams focused on preparing for failure instead of focusing on success.
31:00 - They do agree they don't like idea of every game as a service.
31:30 - Says no game is shipped with all intended features, they're always cutting stuff at the end to ship on time, he doesn't like the idea that end-of-life preparations would be non-negotiable during those cuts, he wants studio focused on how to make biggest best game they can make.
32:30 - Guy ponders how scary this would be for a small indie studio with limited funding.
34:30 - Says big publishers do scummy stuff, but they won't touch the scummy stuff to fund these changes, they'll dump it all on the dev side, says the better answer is for people not to buy bad products and let the market regulate itself.
40:30 - Guy says regulation isn't needed because overwhelmingly companies have done the right thing, and everyone is focusing on few examples when they haven't.
