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Please god give me a good summary of this whole saga my brain can only handle so much poison
There's an ongoing movement to legislate video game studios to provide offline modes or community server support for games that require online connections, so that games don't become permanently unplayable when support for them ends. In the EU you can get citizen petitions in front of lawmakers with enough signatures.
Pirate Software is some ghoul who opposes the movement because he's illiterate and thinks it means that studios must keep servers online forever even if zero players exist. He has a large audience and while opposing the petition caused a Streisand effect that got way more eyes on it, ensuring it got enough signatures before its deadline.
There's actually a stream clip of Pirate Software being asked about his feelings on the initiative in a donation a week or so before he first "officially" commented on it. In the clip, just from hearing the name of the initiative, he
So for him to then later make a hitpiece video and somehow no longer understanding what it is about and not saying that he believes it would be against his financial interests is absolutely not just being an idiot and later doubling down. He totally knew what he was trying to do. Problem is I was only linked the clip in the context of a longer video by an awful gamergate chud, don't exactly feel comfortable sharing that garbage lol
Also, please put me in the gamer gulag for having researched this