It feels like this kind of regulation would create a perverse incentive for more games to change into a free to download with subscription, gachas, pay to win, etc monetization scheme to circumvent the ‘I bought this and so should have access forever’ idea this is trying to defend.
Wouldn’t ‘single player game/game-mode shall not require internet handshake’ be a more targeted way to try achieving this goal?
It feels like this kind of regulation would create a perverse incentive for more games to change into a free to download with subscription, gachas, pay to win, etc monetization scheme to circumvent the ‘I bought this and so should have access forever’ idea this is trying to defend. Wouldn’t ‘single player game/game-mode shall not require internet handshake’ be a more targeted way to try achieving this goal?
I fear that too. Yet your proposal would result in less single-player and more forced useless multiplayer like e.g. diablo4.
That’s fair, we just can’t win can we
It feels like you never took the time to read what SKG is about and are just throwing out false assumptions.
I read the entire Stop Destroying Videogames citizens initiative, feel free to enlighten me on what i missed