California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns "doesn't reflect how games actually work", ESA assert

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• unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, that’s the point. You made them not work that way and the bill is to compel you to make them work that way.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right? Or at least release the source code so others can. SKG is surprisingly reasonable in what they ask. They know you can’t run servers forever. So release a dedicated server client. Or peer to peer. Or just the source and the community will build a new one. We’ve had enough of the excuses.

    • 15 year software engineer who definitely knows it is possible.

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Funny, I have a pile of games that work just fine without a server. Multiplayer might be a truck bon-locally, but no reason it needs remote calls to work otherwise.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They don’t work that way when you allow game companies to purposefully design their games to eventually break…?

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• vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This just in, the ESA has no idea how games work.

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