Commission will engage with industry following European Citizens' Initiative on the disabling of videogames by publishers
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The European Commission will engage with consumers and publishers by the end of 2026 to explore ways to improve industry standards, as a response to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) ‘Stop Destroying Videogames'.
  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “oh, you had a million of signatures, but unfortunately this is a multi-billion dollar industry”

      • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        it also incentivises needlessly putting more game logic and data server side, e.g. Gran Turismo 7 saves everything on cloud servers, and when their servers aren’t reachable you can’t use most of the cars in the game or any modified cars in single player (basically a slightly worse experience than playing Gran Turismo 4 without a memory card).