"The timing is impossible to ignore": Stop Killing Games says Ubisoft attended "invitation-only" meeting with EU Commission ahead of response to campaign sparked by The Crew shutdown, but it "was not invited"
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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
    1529·
    6 days ago

    So the “blatant corruption” is that they met? With interested party? Yes, I’m sure meeting the CEO of Ubisoft was dream come true for EC…

    Seriously people, EC passed GDPR against Meta, they passed DMA against Google, they have excellent track record on regulating corporations literally hundredths of times bigger than Ubisoft. I know people here think video games are the most important industry in the entire world but the reality is that EC most likely simply doesn’t care.

    Yes, it’s sad that 1M signatures was not enough. Turns out it’s pretty much impossible for a organic movement like that to change the laws on a continental level. It takes lawyers, it takes consumer groups, it takes political backing, it takes funding. SKG simply didn’t have a good enough case here.

    • placebo@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I don’t find your examples particularly relevant and convincing, but that’s off-topic. You’re totally right that communicating with involved parties is normal and does not ‘exhibit blatant corruption.’ To be fair, the original article doesn’t claim that it does. OP just wanted to rage bait everyone.

      • Lemmert@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        I was a bit surprised this was mentioned so far down in the comments. Especially since the article is sparse on the details for obvious reasons.

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
        31·
        5 days ago

        EU also banned ICE cars against the lobbying of all the European car companies. Auto industry is ~$600B in EU, video games are ~$80B. Sure, EU relaxed the rules in the end but again, you really think they are able to regulate auto industry but are folding immediately when video games lobbyist show up?

        • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          Depends. How much are the lobbyists paying? Its possible the auto industry simply refused to pay whereas gaming companies might pay more.

          Also, these people care way less about anything related to video games than they care about banning cars. “Cars are loud, get in the way of their bicycle, and sometimes stink; but video games? What is that?”

          • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            Depends. How much are the lobbyists paying? Its possible the auto industry simply refused to pay whereas gaming companies might pay more.

            Yes, video game execs showed up with bags full of cash but the auto industry was like “we’re too principled to give them a bribe. We would rather die!”. I’m sure specially WV execs were against it. They are way to honorable to cheat.

            Sorry but you sound like all your knowledge about politics comes from The West Wing or some other stupid show.