Please god give me a good summary of this whole saga my brain can only handle so much poison
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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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.
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funny half-life video creator makes EU initiative to make it so when companies shut down games with internet components, they release the server software so people can keep playing it after the game has been shut down -> nepo baby streamer who calls himself pirate software and then puts DRM in his games throws a hissy fit and lies about the initiative because he makes money off of publishing live service games -> creator of stopkillinggames releases one last hail mary video explaining that no it won't force indie developers at gunpoint to turn their multiplayer games into singleplayer games or whatever the fuck dude was saying -> everyone kinda hates the pirate software guy for being a douchebag narcissist so the power of spite gets like 600k people to sign the initiative getting it to its goal while he throws another hissy fit on the internet lmao
capitalism bad, EU has some mechanism to make parliament acknowledge a grievance, internet man stupid in public, EU process probably going forward anyway.
Appreciating everyone’s responses and recording your names for when it’s time to undertake operation Gamer Gulag (operation GG)
"You were disobedient so I had no choice but to abuse you."
I don’t know who any of these people are. Happy for you tho, or sorry that happened
What if he planned this the entire time? What if he made the ultimate sacrifice for gamers?
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"I was just being stupid on purpose! To troll you, and also help you!"
Okay bud.
unfortunately i suspect that most new signatures are forged and botted. even if the initiative passes it'll probably go nowhere and the organising I've seen while valiant has been rather poor. if it wasn't for the drama it wouldn't even pass the "we'll think about it" threshold. consumer advocacy is really hard when you're up against hundreds of millions of dollars of corporate interest and admittedly the low priority of this issue outside one specific demographic. i hope it'll do something but i wouldn't count on it.