Thread 715704863

Now that Stop Killing Games as basically already enshrined into law and companies are scrambling to cater to our needs, what do you guys think about a new campaign?

I call it "Stop Billing Games".

The initiative would state that it's illegal to sell any games in Europe more expensive than 20 Euros.

MAKE GAMES AFFORDABLE AGAIN!

>B-BUT THINK OF THE POOR INDIE DEVELOPERS

There are no indie games worth more than 20 Euros

>B-BUT BIG COMPANIES WILL STOP SELLING GAMES IN EUROPE. IT'S NOT FINANCIALLY VIABLE!

Good. If they want my hard earned cash they will have to figure out how to make it financially viable or FUCK OFF

>B-BUT THIS IS COMMUNISM

You are communism

yawn

This whole thing is so retarded
>We demand you make your always online games offline available
>No? Ok then let us own it and we'll host the servers btw the main character is trans now
>No? Ok then leave them online forever
>No??? What do you mean no its clearly a consumers right???
That roach guy is 100% right. You are just retarded.

I don't know what this is about but every time I see this guy's goofy face in the catalog I smile

All that's going to change is the little disclaimer they're going to put on the box to tell you servers can go down at any time

>>715705918
I just don‘t get why you would want legislation to get involved with how devs make games. There‘s more games being made than ever and even a company like sony can spend hundreds of millions on a game only for it to flop miserably and be shut down within two weeks. Let the market decide what succeeds and if people want to support companies that make their games unplayable then so be it. Not everything in our lives needs to be regulated by the government

>>715706135
>Let the market decide what succeeds and if people want to support companies that make their games unplayable then so be it.
Corporations keep killing games no matter if they succeed or fail, so clearly the free market is incapable of changing this.

>>715704863 (OP)
Or we could stop trying to make this Gamergate 2 and have a nice thing?

>>715705918
how about making entirely offline single-player games available offline without a check-in with a server or log-in in some service?

>>715706135
>just ignore the problem!
No. I will openly boycott always online shit. Cope.

>>715706135
>how devs make games
how publishers tell devs to make games

>>715706442
That's not how it works. Are you a programmer? No? So shut the fuck up. This kind of stuff is complicated.

>>715706371
It‘s about wether people support those companies after they‘ve killed games. If you buy a ubisoft live service game after they shut down the crew servers i don‘t know what to tell you

>>715706528
As a matter of fact, I am

>>715706528
Somehow it was the default for gaming for many years. Like player-hosted servers.

>>715704863 (OP)
Next would be for gaben to make steam pay so he can get even fatter from all the porn games that aren't purchaseable with credit cards.

>>715706528
>Are you a programmer?
yes. bachelor of business administration, game development, though it was just a glorified software development and unreal 4 degree with next to no business courses. vr and ar stuff was neat

>>715706528
Arthur Gies, is that you?

>>715704863 (OP)
>every game is cut into 4-5 chapters, each releasing at glacial pace, each chapter costs 20 bucks
microntsactions and fomo stay of course

>>715706665
please understand, he was born after horse armor

>>715704863 (OP)
How are you gonna do that with World of Warcraft

>>715705918
based

>>715707761
who cares

>Devs always host a server for bugtesting purposes on the office microwave
>But nooooo apparently giving players the tools to host a dedicated server is some insurmountable task

I think the next campaign should be stop licensing games.

>>715707761
Private servers have existed for years. And this is without blizzard freely giving out information on how to do it. Quite possibly the most retarded attempt to discredit SKG.

>>715705918
what about developers rights? don't they have a say in whether they want to continue supporting their game?

>>715709182
This lol, if anything it's a shinining example, a game with both official servers and private ones

>>715709484
>supporting
Just release the devtools and tell the community to knock themselves out.

>>715709484
What about my right to put poison in food to make it cheaper to produce?