I hate Thor as much as anybody else, but he actually has a point (and you don't need qualifications to understand it, just be a gamer). He just did not know how to articulate it because he is not very smart.

He who is sovereign is who decides the exceptions, and SKG is just begging to give governments power of videogames.

>existing games who employ the live service method cannot be retroactively changed to fit new legislation (and laws cannot act retroarctively), so all appeals from SKG to save Ubisoft and EA games are rendered useless
>likewise, signed terms of use contracts (which predict server shutdown from the contractor's side) by users cannot be invalidated, and you most likely signed one of these when you booted your game
>the effect of this is that existing live services can continue endlessly while the market is closed off to future competitors, so expect more thirty years of FF14, WoW and Guild Wars domination
>SKG's forceful commitment that every game must run offline increases the risk of piracy (loss of profit) while raising costs of production
>additional legislation that makes making certain type of games prohibitive and threaten to harm existing live services (and potential new business practices

This entire thing is silly.