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Man fuck Axel Voss! Damn copyright shill. Guess we can take solace in the fact that he seemed to be the only one clearly taking the publishers side here.
And if I'm not mistaken, the European Commission representative argued in his reply to Voss (around 12:20) that "collective management organisations" or "cultural heritage institutions" might well be allowed to preserve games that are not commercially available anymore already under the current framework.
Hopefully we wont see bad actors just pivot to f2p and have a few microtransactions to actually unlock the games.
Some mobile games already work that way where they claim to be f2p but it‘s just a demo of the actual game with ingame purchases for the other levels. However annoying, it‘s not flat out scamming customers like shutting down servers months after release is. Perhaps devs should still be required to label it as a demo just in case though.
Wup, there's management. Let me guess what they're talking about.
"You, sir, are mad! Dinosaurs are reptiles! They must be cold-blooded!"
"Now, you listen and you listen good: Birds are one of the closest living relatives to dinosaurs we have. And I don't need to tell you they're all warm-blooded."
"Do you know how difficult it is to maintain thermostasis for an animal so large? They're cold-blooded, I tell you!"
"Let me tell you something. There's evidence to suggest that Velociraptors had feathers. Feathers! What does that tell you?"
It's amazing that Ross Scott has gone from delivering the funnies to absolute morale boosting for the gaming media.
This is what a honest lobby looks like
Right? They represent a few million people instead of like five large companies.
