Did the way the way Stop Killing Games stagnated for nearly a year to have a sudden push near the deadline actually really work in its favour?
It really seems like the industry and their lobbyists got lazy and thought it would just fizzle out, only to be caught offguard. They have now started to react, including creating their own campaign for "video game preservation" (in the same way coal and oil companies protect the environment), but it seems pretty haphazardly done.
Of course, the real battle will be in the EU parliament, although I'm somewhat optimistic that it will be sympathetic to the initiative, considering previous moves against tech industry leaders.
Also, don't waste your time and effort on PS, VGE is the actual enemy (who will certainly try to frame SGK as a harrassment campaign against a small indie devoloper.

>>714650234 (OP)
https://x.com/videogames_EU/status/1940670001729753379
>Championing "right to play" on twitter while they bash the initiative and cry that keeping games playable is too expensive
Bunch of snakes.

>>714650669
>But think of the children.
Next will be:
>If those regulations are introduced, people might die.

>>714650234 (OP)
>Did the way the way Stop Killing Games stagnated for nearly a year to have a sudden push near the deadline actually really work in its favour?
I think so, it was such a shock that they only reacted well after the voting has reached the threshold.

>>714650669
your mistake is thinking the 'right' in 'right to play is about being able to play video games.
Those 'rights' are for LGBTQIAA+2S to play and be included in video games

>>714650945
Hmmm, reminds me of something...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EozPi1qmH44
>If right to repair laws pass you will be raped in a parking garage

>>714651052
They are only using them as a shield, they will throw them under the bus the second they think it will benefit them. I think most of the woke ideology is bullshit, but it's better to help them understand that the industry isn't their friend and work together against common threads.
>>714651126
Yes, that's what I'm referring to. It's the same pattern over and over again.

God I hope I can stop seeing CorpoSoftware's faggot face on the catalog every day now that the actual enemy has shown its face. I doubt that'll be the case though, people here love their eceleb drama more than they'd like to admit.

>>714652960
The silver lining is at least by the time the whole petty internet drama moved on, SKG already reached the intended vote target and primed for actual assesments in the EU.

>>714654332
Was the surge caused by the drama or by procastrinating people finally starting to act?
And some people are still pushing the drama. Some of it might be instigated by the industry discredit the initiative. Not that there aren't enough folks who use any chance to dogpile on a lolcow they can get.

>>714650234 (OP)
>i wonder whose behind VGE
lmao

>>714651126
I like the one where the lobbyist is trying to say replacing batteries is too dangerous for a dumb customer to figure out which is why they make them inaccessible these days. "MUH DANGER"

>>714655376

>>714654959
Most of these companies are american, which the EU has a grudge against, i question how effective VGE even is.

>>714654868
I think it's both with more towards the drama. The movement was actually doing pretty awful job at promoting itself, so not a lot of people really get what it's about, and I don't think people aware it even existed. The drama certainly helped resurface it in a big way and by the time it happened people started to read more on the movement.

>>714655602
Yeah I wonder if VGE is even that powerful in the eyes of EU parliament.

>>714655602
>>714656121
They could ask Trump to make a deal for them.

>>714656121
EU btfo apple
Think about that

>>714656625

They should expand it to all software, make it illegal for companies to create mandatory always online software for their products and then become unable to use their products when they go belly-up. That would ruffle some feathers.

>>714650234 (OP)
I've been playing Uma Musume for the past week and yes holding your spurt for the final stretch is a legitimate tactic.

>>714656708
Baby steps man. I mean right now customers are starting to realize the value of the preservation of games. The video game industry is just now finally reaching the equivalent of 1980s film industry, when people became aware that maybe preserving existing movies couldn't hurt after the loss of so many films before that. Making always online illegal is still long ways off, especially with how much profitable that shit is, the opposition would be more intense I'd reckon.