Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban "risky" content. This isn't just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we'll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

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[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 37 points 14 hours ago (24 children)

Still waiting for the day Steam bites the bullet and just publish titles DRM free by default (as in if a studio really wants DRM they have to pay Steam extra, and Steam publishes that their DRM is in use)

[–] kaptan@hackerz.world 23 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Publishers would just pay the extra fee and pass the cost to us. They care about controlling the data than they do about actual sales. You know.. capitalism.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Erm yes but in all likelihood the only ones that could reasonably afford said extra fees is AAA corporates who I don’t feel bad sailing on the high seas to download.

Meanwhile the more smaller and often Independent probably can’t afford the costs in paying for DRM protections and so would go without them. Hell a number would even likely use it as a marketing tool “my game is available DRM free, unlike that Activision-EA Slop.”

[–] kaptan@hackerz.world 11 points 13 hours ago

Fair point. Let the giants pay the tax to treat us like criminals while indies get to market themselves. It just makes it easier to decide who to support and who to pirate.

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