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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Guy who is the director of strategy for a publisher that only has thus far worked on a live-service game:

guys pleaaase don’t regulate live-service boowomp
we need a totally-deregulated industry for uhh innovation and stuff boowomp
do you want politicians telling you what games to play boowomp
this will kill the cash flow boowomp
what if people do sabotage to accelerate end-of-life to get private servers boowomp
please do not consider whether or not this is more likely or better than a studio just killing their own servers and litigating against people who try to preserve the game boowomp
its totally unsustainable to have ~~right-to-repair~~ erm uh ~~emulation~~ uuuuuhhhhh sorry post-end-of-life preservation boowomp
it’s disrespectful to holy IP praise be boowomp
you had the game for ten years already boowomp
who really cares about art preservation anyways boowomp
this is tyranny boowomp

[–] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of how one of the dudes on Extra Credits channel was a consultant for like DLC and microtransactions and the channel kept making arguments why they're not inherently bad.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

So glad Dan left them. He's a chill guy, and they've only gotten more blatant since he left.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like the ultimate freeze-gamer to me.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

as I said last night arriving at a vehement pro-union anti-regulation position is almost the platonic ideal of Labor Aristocracy wowee