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we did it Reddit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXcogLmxnJw&t=27s
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>>737114545
>Incapable of not emptying his wallet at the sight of new AAA slop.
Skill issue.
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Simply to protect games is very important you never know what kind of good game will emerge whenever it's going to be AAA or from indie dev it's important that you have at least some access to it.
Also to this is connected a right to repair initiative which is even more important since nobody wants to end up with a fucking car that turns off your engine when 2 years of period will end.
Not expecting low 70 IQ chimpanzee to understand this but it is how it is.
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Enjoying watching all the kikes, bootlickers, and corposhills lose their shit over this .
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>>737113958
>game you bought
such a fuckin flimsy case
>publisher: you didn't buy shit, you rented a license for use of our IP
>SKG: ...ummm
SKG is absolutely fucked
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E-celeb obsessed commie populists, pushing for central planning
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SKG is not about making sure people aren't scammed, that's why they excplicitly reject anything notion of legislating against subversive language that would result in consumers being informed in the decision they make. But ofc, if the averake SKG supporter actually knew what was being pushed, they wouldn't be mindless populist retards.
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>you like $THING? all your friends play $THING and you want to play it too? j-just don't buy it bruh
Retard
Also, as it was said at the beginning, consuming is literally how citizens today live, not to mention how you are not any different when it comes to consuming stuff so this point is double-retarded
Anyway that insane (how did this shit even was allowed to be sold??) fallout 76 license agreement seals the whole deal as extremely predatory anti-consumer industry-wide practices that must be brought to a halt asap.
Project guthenberg for video games idea also sounds interesting (however I'm still convinced that concord doesn't deserve to occupy even one single bit if hosted on such a project, absolute waste of space and it deserves no mention or preservation, but this is just my opinion), what I like the most is that it addressed different problems at once and it can be looked at from different angles from false advertisement to copyright abuse and forceful erasure of cultural heritage, meaning that it increases the likelihood that something gets actually at the end.
I think the pretty much unanimous support during the hearing speaks for itself. Also it's obviously a deliberate business practice, however the facts speak for itself: the majority of gamers would purchase 1-2 games a year regardless if they have literally tens of thousands of games available to them at any moment that were made in the last 20 or so years. From emulation to simply older games being sold in storefronts, the fact that an old game is not immediately killed it really won't push the needle to such a significant amount. Those who would want to play the new game will purchase the new game for whatever reason (friends playing it, interest, supporting devs to get more), while those who wouldn't have purchased anyway won't be really influenced by their old game being still available in that choice.
Total corposcum death, comply with regulations or get fined to hell
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>>737115201
>This actually happened during the hearing
bullshit
baldie has a shot?
an actual shot?
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>>737114903
Oh i am so gonna enjoy the meltdown that's coming.
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>>737115494
hopefully games won't be permanently shut down, if you bought a bunch of skins in an open world game ideally you should roam the open world and still have all your purchased stuff, not necessarily with working online but hosting your own server would also be great
this is obviously an ideal scenario, as they said during the hearing thei aim is to bring digital media consumer protection close to if not at the same level as physical media which effectively would outlive you in most cases
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>>737115119
SKG support is entirely based on delusionally insisting on this very point.
They really think that it'll be enough to get legislation passed that will harm EU intellectual property rights and tax revenue streams.
>>737115395
>Also, as it was said at the beginning, consuming is literally how citizens today live, not to mention how you are not any different when it comes to consuming stuff so this point is double-retarded
>"Oh noo! I'm buying BBQ flavored chips, but sourcream & onion is more popular, so other people are buying that! The government must crack down on consumer choice immediately!"
Just STOP consooming GaaS you low IQ apes.
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>>737113958
>woman starts speaking
>endless le quirky gaymur references
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>>737115846
It's sadly clear Ross is the only who cares about this and he's clearly stated he would glad step back if anyone else would pick it up instead. But he's the man of the hour.
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>>737115806
>food analogy
It's literally impossible to have a conversation with you mutts
The initiative doesn't restrict consumer choice in any capacity whatsoever and it doesn't aim to kill live service games and there have already been instances of GaaS like The Crew which seems to be the linchpin of the whole thing getting a post-shutdown patch. There's nothing wrong with someone liking their GaaS game, the whole point is that they should be able to play this GaaS at any point in time without some arbitrary decision from the publisher to restrict said access.
You are twisting words, making stuff up and straight up lying (while posting a frog so it's not like anyone expected some valuable contribution to the discussion).
Whoever came up with the "less games" retardation is a moron and an idiot.
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>>737116074
You really have to ask? Even after all this time?
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>>737115119
>>publisher: you didn't buy shit, you rented a license for use of our IP
Then it's not a product, but a service, and you have no business demanding rights that come from it being a product, and have the obligation to obey all laws that come with it being a service.
But they don't want that, because it's a losing situation for them.
RETARD
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>>737115512
>https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:62019CC0410
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The Commission claims that the judgment in UsedSoft ( 24 ) supports the finding that the grant of a perpetual licence to use the software qualifies as a ‘sale’ under Directive 86/653. Similar to that judgment, here the customer acquires a permanent right to use the software in return for payment of a fee, and it makes no difference to the nature of the transaction whether the software is made available by download or a tangible medium, as reiterated in subsequent case-law.
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>>737116132
>jeets are paid per post by game companies.... to reduce the amount of predatory live service games made by the same companies
notice the absolute lack of cause and effect reasoning
>>737116154
great, so we actually won't have less games, case closed, glad we agree on that
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>"How about you simply stop consuming feces?"
>"Oy vey! What are you? A jeet? a mutt!?"
I know that low IQ individuals have a tough time with analogies, but man you didn't have to make it this obvious.
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>>737116246
maybe im too dumb to figure this out
do euros actually OWN the games they buy?
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>>737115806
Why do frogposters consistently have dogshit opinions?
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>>737116350
>"There's nothing wrong with food served on a plate of shit per se."
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>>737115806
>this jeet is unironically tryign the same line that got btfo in an earlier thread
>>737114008
You really cant make this shit up, corpo defending jeets really are this fucking stupid lmao
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>>737113958
They should be able to disable the server side support but make it plausible to run privately by providing necessary patches and downloads for the game so it can be played by dedicated community. Simple as. It worked for Street Fighter 3rd Strike's community. Let the fans do whatever they want with your shit once your are done supporting it for non monetary gain and purposes.
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>>737116541
>food analogy
>twisting and misintepreting words
>>737116546
Because the initiatve is obviously about respecting consumer rights
I might have never played a GaaS before but what if tomorrow I wanted to try one, you don't have to engage with something or be affected by it to see why it's actually worth defending, as a matter of fact I supported the initiative and signed it myself without having any skin in the game whatsoever, because it is the right thing to do
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>>737116532
>Purchase and play games that aren't GaaS-based, if you don't like the GaaS model.
>"No, I simply cannot"
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>"I'm right because of my inability to engage with analogies"
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Friendly reminder to those of you that aren't lving the unironic neet meme and leave the basement occasionally:
Talk about this with people you meet in daily life, not just here on 4channel. These constant threads are a containment campaign meant to keep the broader population from become aware of this and siding with the initiative. They do it by spamming threads to antagonize and oversaturate you, so you don't keep the talk here instead of spreading it.
The poos will continue spamming these threads until we get the final answer from the commission in ~3 months.
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>>737116901
Please explain the issue with making it a legal mandate for live service games to have an EoL plan that includes keeping the game playable for people who've already purchased the game or made purchases within it?
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>Buying shit that can stop working without actually breaking in the first place.
You already failed here. If Slopmaker wants to sell me Slop 5000 remake of the slops now extra slopified my first question is: Does it Work, flawlessly, out of the box, offline. If not its a dealbreaker. The first box to tick before I even spending time researching the gameplay etc. And you know what? I have never haf the problems all these corpo/anti corpo shitflingers had. Its just that easy.
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the shill trying to demoralize skg is the funniest shit ever
what's the matter little guy? will (((they))) stop throwing pennies at you if it passes?
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>>737116676
Moron. Single-player only games that are required to connect online because of DRM that then become unplayable when the company shuts down the server that the game itself never needed are not "online slop", this is 100 % and issue that the companies are causing and they need to be held accountable for it.
I don't care about online gaming.
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>>737117274
See >>737117171
You are not making a counter argument. You are trying to sidestep the the argument entirely.
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>>737116901
Further proving my point that frogposters are the worst.
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>>737116510
A) It's more work for the developers to do that than it is to just release a server host kit or disable online check-ins
B) Enjoy your class action lawsuit dipshit, the EU has no patience for planned obsolescence bullshit which is exactly what that is, with a side order of false advertising
A company would have to be both literally retarded and actively malicious towards their customer base to do this.
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>>737117460
>Waaah stop calling me a jeet waaah!
See >>737116224
It's not a meme. The whole world knows what you are, sewer-dwelling brown
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Ubisoft is so fucking awful that not even Nintendo, one of the most ruthless companies in the industry, can be compared to them.
Mario Maker 1, for example, is still playable, even though it no longer has online support. Fifty years from now, if you still have the game card and a working Wii U, you’ll still be able to play it, even if there’s no longer any online content.
How petty do you have to be for your online game not to even have a "free roam" mode where people can drive freely through the streets?
Holy shit...
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Reminder they're the same people that want you to send pictures of yourself to social media. Never let the government control your life.
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>>737117951
oh Goy! I want to give up my individual rights and freedoms so I can play a 15 year old video game I wasn't going to play either way. Send us a selfie to determine if you can play!
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>>737117171
>Please explain the issue with making it a legal mandate for live service games to have an EoL plan that includes keeping the game playable for people who've already purchased the game or made purchases within it?
There are multiple issues. Chief among them, is the insisting on pretending that there is no difference between purchasing a game, and purchasing access to a live service, all while at the same time, actively rejecting suggestions for legistation that will assist people who're currently unable to understand this difference make more informed decisions when spending their money. Everything else is secondary to this, but SKG supporters really want to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to this.
Another point:
For the creative that supplied access to the service, keeping the game playable, could impact their ability to monetize their work in the future, should they wish to supply the service once more.
Retiring from providing a service for a while, does not mean that you should have your rights to your intellectual property infringed upon.
Simply insisting that this isn't the case, is not an argument that will be taken serious in an eventual court of law. Which is why I hope that SKG supporters never elevate from this type of retort.
>>737117274 is someone else.
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>>737118294
>pretending that there is no difference between purchasing a game, and purchasing access to a live service
Because there isnt one. See >>737116246
>For the creative that supplied access to the service, keeping the game playable, could impact their ability to monetize their work in the future, should they wish to supply the service once more.
So in other words
>Let them take it away whenever they want so they can sell it back to you again
It's good that you opened up on just how fucking scummy your position really is.
>Letting you keep the game you purchased is infringing on corporste IP rights!
Lol.
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>>737118294
>Chief among them, is the insisting on pretending that there is no difference between purchasing a game, and purchasing access to a live service
There is literally zero difference, the latter having an unspecified termination date is also part of the issue that SKG is working against. When you purchase vidya you are purchasing a liscense that doesn't expire it doesn't matter the whether its online only or not. This is literally in every games EULA
>Another point:
Literally nothing you say here is in anyway correct or makes sense, how would the company behind the game have their ability to monetize their work be impacted? You aren't being made to give the game away for free, just ensure that people are able to continue using what they purchased. No property rights besides those of the consumer are being affected by this. And if the developer wants to have official service for the game return? They can fully do that why would adding offline functionality hamper this?
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>>737118294
>purchasing a game, and purchasing access to a live service
semantics
what is sold to people is a license to use. you don't get to withdraw it from me after it's being sold. you're thinking of subscription based access
>SKG supporters really want to have their cake and eat it too
and we will. cope
>keeping the game playable, could impact their ability to monetize their work in the future, should they wish to supply the service once more
you mean like when blizzard killed overwatch so that they could launch the same game, but with a 2 in the name?
wow what a deal to customers, having their game simply taken away so that they could be forced to buy it again. amazing
>rights to your intellectual property infringed upon
what rights exacly? nobody is taking their work and reselling it. well, the publisher would love to do it, hence skg
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I kneel...
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and that's a good thing, name 5 great recent games
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>>737117868
Government actions can be good or bad, just like those of corporations.
If the tourism industry is lobbying to keep niggas in jail because they're robbing and raping people on the streets, ruining business, then the corporation is on my side.
If the government is imposing harsher penalties on these same niggas because they're ruining people's lives, then the government is on my side.
The problem is when corporations and governments start being dominated by women and Jews (both real ones and goyim who think like Jews), and suddenly, for some mysterious reason, they're releasing criminal niggas onto the streets while going public to say that "white supremacists" are the greatest social risk right now, and that's why resources should be used to combat them or some shit.
Reminder that all these Internet control measures are really just the establishment trying to silence the chuds who spout "racist" and "misogynistic" truths online.
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>>737118294
>Simply insisting that this isn't the case, is not an argument that will be taken serious in an eventual court of law.
You've come a long way from crying the petition is a grift and wont get any signs or attention, havent you? Look at you, accepting that this is going to enter legal debate now.
>Which is why I hope that SKG supporters never elevate from this type of retort.
You'd have a point if this were in the united shithole where corpos can bribe and armtwist judges to strike it down. Thankfully, rhe EU has a long history of resolving cases like this without succumbing to legalese semantics.
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>>737117267
no, as I said, analogies are out of place when
>they are used to misinterpret, twist and dismiss the arguments being made as some kind of gotcha
which is exactly what you are doing
not even once was my argument actually addressed in any capacity
>The initiative doesn't restrict consumer choice in any capacity whatsoever
>Just le don't consooom is not an argument because there's literally nothing wrong with the concept of a live service game per se and the initiative doesn't even address it, because the main focus is consumer rights protections and responsible shutdown of the game
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>purchasing a game, and purchasing access to a live service
The (false) advertisment for both is virtually the same.
Nowhere in the GaaS trailer or main advertisement material does it say "erm actually you revoke any and all rights to this produ- erm we meant service, therefore you will destroy all copies of this game in your posession without notice when we decide (arbitrarly) to shut it down, no refunds".
Your argument starts from the false premise thus the whole thing falls apart.
>more informed decisions
People made an informed decision, which is exclusively based on "wow this game is fun" regardless if it's a live service GAME (not product, as corpospeak would imply) or not, this is the only reason why people purchase and play video games in the first place.
>Everything else is secondary to this
You are obviously not familiar in any capacity with the material and reasoning behind the initiative, it doesn't matter how you perceieve consumer habits or what you think about GaaS games, the initiative is calling out specific predatory consumer-rights violations and it's actually the primary objective of the initiative.
>keeping the game playable
Keeping the game playable doesn't go beyond "it doesn't shit itself when you click Play".
>could
Here we get into what-if imaginary territory aka details to which you would latch if you had no arguments left.
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he looks like a 16-17th century aristocrat, I kneel
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>>737118003
Yeah I'll be honest, I've never gotten various ideologies that claim you should only focus on X thing to the exclusion of any other power brokers.
Like sure, the Communists have a point about how Capitalists and Corporations can be incredibly shitty, but either won't or can't admit that their empowerment of the state is gay as fuck, and vise versa for fags crying about the government doing anything being communism. Maybe they're all just the dumb supporters and the actual texts are more informative, but I doubt it, they'll probably just give increasingly dumb justifications about how it all really just ties back into being that one power in a society.
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>>737118581
>(these laws actually mean corporations will create less games)
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God forbid the government wants to make sure that you're a person and a legal citizen or not before letting you use services. What's next? They're gonna require ID to vote or something?
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Wow, Epic Argument
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They own all your favorite IPs regardless
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>shill completely demoralized within minutes
sometimes this board is alright
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>>737118902
Sorry buttfucker22 we can't let you play this game because you said mean words on the internet. Our community doesn't allow chuds and racists.
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>>737118501
>https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:62019CC0410
Anon... This is not law, it's an opinion.
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Once again, SKG supporters insisting on there being no difference, because it doesn't suit their narrative.
As I said. Please do continue this line of argumentation as is. Never change.
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>>737118105
He wishes he was that smart
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was thinking of this
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>>737119081
At this point you are being an idiot on purpose, when you buy a thing you own the thing. When you make a single purchase and are not told upfront when it ends. That is bad,
This only exists in this single market.
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>>737119081
here you go, retard: >>737115201
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>>737113958
Ross-sama is so powerful...
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>>737119268
>When you make a single purchase and are not told upfront when it ends. That is bad
Correct, but efforts to force publishers to inform customers upfront more clearly is explicitly not what SKG wants you illiterate chimp.
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>>737118964
Nigga your argument is "If these laws pass game developers who make money by making games will just make less games." Nigga is you dumb? And you want SERIOUS counter arguments, FOH.
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>>737119081
>This is not law, it's an opinion.
>the JUDGMENT in UsedSoft ( 24 ) supports the finding
The factis that your cope hinges entirely on the "it's not a product, it's a license!" legalese which the EU commission has openly disregarded as pointless semantics.
Nonchalance is a nice look, but you actually need to stay calm and disconnected for it to work.
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>>737114703
>industry consistently fucks the consumer on every level whenever they can get away with it
>industry unnecessarily shoves online requirements whenever they can
>retard (that’s (you)) sincerely believes that game developers wouldn’t try to kill single player games the second they could get away with it
get fucked. This is being throttled in the cradle before it can spread.
Go ahead and cry about the slippery slope without a trace of self awareness now.
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You're representative is part of the Pirate Party. BWAHAHAHA. MPs there must roll their eyes when this girl shows up.
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where were you when eurobros revealed that they own all of their games REGARDLESS of bullshit corporate meddling and semantics?
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>>737119507
My point is that this exact type of argumentation, where you want your cake and eat it too, is what I hope you keep going with, if the matter ever lands infront of a judge.
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>>737119906
>Kato Sauli terve. Mitäs EU-komissaari?
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>>737119081
>As I said. Please do continue this line of argumentation as is. Never change.
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>Simply insisting that this isn't the case, is not an argument that will be taken serious in an eventual court of law. Which is why I hope that SKG supporters never elevate from this type of retort.
>this poor american cuckold unironically believes the YOU BOUGHT A LICENSE YOU DONT OWN THE GAME bullshit will actually fly in an European court of law
I pity you poor fucks, I really do. You actually believe having a corporate cock up your ass 24/7 is a state of being.
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>>737119906
Yuri??
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>>737119865
Yeah, I like owning things. I would like to do more of that when I buy them.
>you only bought a license wahhh
We should change things to make them better. Not whine on behalf of corporations because "oh no everything will fall apart" since that has never happened.
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>>737120068
Tell it to the judge.
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>>737120108
>go to store
>buy box with game in it
>put disk in my PS4 that hasn't connected to the internet
>game doesn't work because cannot reach game server
>plug it into the internet
>game server is actually dead forever
okay
This is fine and should not be changed. Why do you not want this to be fixed to make things better?
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>>737113958
>no we don't want refunds, there has to be greater legal ramifications
This sounds genuinely retarded
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You think Ross's autistic wife is having a private melty over her husband getting so much positive attention/fulfilling his life's work?
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>>737120218
>buy box with a license in it
ftfy
Now go back to the store and make use of your return policy, if the service wasn't available at the time of them selling you the license.
Simple as.
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>>737119081
>Anon... This is not law, it's an opinion.
what about the ruling of the court?
>https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:62019CJ0410
>The concept of ‘sale of goods ’ referred to in Article 1(2) of Council Directive 86/653/EEC of 18 December 1986 on the coordination of the laws of the Member States relating to self-employed commercial agents must be interpreted as meaning that it can cover the supply, in return for payment of a fee, of computer software to a customer by electronic means where that supply is accompanied by the grant of a perpetual licence to use that software.
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>>737116018
The world would genuinely be better off without Indians
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>>737120457
In fact, we need more laws that protect corporations and less laws regulating how they can screw over customers. In fact, we should tax the working class more and give their money to corporations to bail them out.
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>>737120376
Again though, why should we not try and make things better?
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>>737120427
Makes sense. They just whine that things should stay the same, you bought a loicense and we should keep this system so I can feel smug during internet shitposting
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>>737120498
How is giving a refund not enough? It's completely unrealistic, and rather than be informed and not playing trash, it's asking the government to step in a preserve trash for you. Your tax dollars are going towards preserving ubislop with temporary licensing because it has a Honda civic in it or whatever. This is like the dumbest shit I have ever seen.
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>>737115119
The EU doesn't give a shit about what you signed lmao
If companies try to only write contracts to allow temporary leases while they retain ownership over the IP, the EU will ban those contracts and extend the definition of ownership to encompass anything where you exercise personal and exclusive rights over something
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>>737120795
They don't want the threads nuked, because that only mattered before the signatures. Now they want the threads to stay, to keep the topic isolated to 4chan so the normies don't become aware and public opinion shifts even more in favor of SKG.
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>>737120747
NTA. Giving a refund "would" be enough but it just makes no sense. It'd mean the publisher is so religiously committed to destroying their own product that they'd gladly lose money to make it happen.
How about let people play the damn game. It's genuinely cheaper than refunding them, and makes for a happier userbase.
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>>737120372
>a guy that lives in mold and eats nothing but canned beans has a wife and I don't
At least he's a cool dude...
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>>737120747
Because it implies a service should keep shit running forever to keep its money + it foregoes the cultural preservation aspect + it's still planned obsolesence
A refund is "not enough" because of maby aspects and would probably not be ideal for the company anyway.
As usual the anti-SKG crowd is retarded.
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>>737118861
I mold at your general direction!
Un garde, monsieur!
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>>737120682
>Again though, why should we not try and make things better?
I'm not convinced that limiting consumer choice, when the thing people want is already available.
If I'm able to buy and play the games that I like, why would my life improve, by creatives of games that I don't support having their rights to their property infringed upon?
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>>737114703
>You want cars that can be driven without software upgrades? Just don't buy it!
How pathetic does one have to be to not have even the slightest feeling of being helpful in their society? If your neighbour gets shanked for walking in the park at midnight, do you say
>"haha serves him right, fucker should have known to not walk around there at that hour" instead of
>"we should do something so that people feel safe in public spaces"
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>>737114703
Its simple, anon, no matter how much I don't pay, there will be 10 more people who will pay, and thus reward the scummery
The signs were there when initial always online outrage about Diablo 3 and SimCity died out, do you even hear anyone complain about it nowadays? Thought so
Ignoring the issue or yelling about it on the internet simply does not work, other avenues must be taken even if they are imperfect
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>>737120747
>How is the Corporation being graceful enough to give your money back after they take your purchased product away from you without your input not enough?
In the civilized world, corporations cant send suited up thugs to your home to brain you with a bat, slap $20 in your hand and take your stuff. What kind of third world shithole are you posting from where this is allowed?
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>>737118861
Dude went from a night shift security guard to actually addressing the EU parliament. If there's a goddamn character progression arc it's this one .
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>>737113958
Pirate bros... we lost
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>>737120747
"Here's an offline mode that we know we would have to put in when we sunset the services."
Sure is endless support you fucking mouthbreather.
A refund would work. 100%. However I'm sure the money raised by selling the game would go away after refunding all copies. Money that surely didn't already get spent. How are you this fucking stupid? Please say you are merely pretending.
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>>737121049
>If I'm able to buy and play the games that I like, why would my life improve, by creatives of games that I don't support having their rights to their property infringed upon?
What rights? The right to scam your players?
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>>737121049
>why would my life improve, by creatives of games that I don't support having their rights to their property infringed upon?
their rights are being infringed upon by....not being allowed to steal the products that they legally sold to the customer? what?
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>>737121129
You keep the purchasing of a limited license for access to a service, to purchasing the underlying service.
>>737121152
>You sold access and didn't say when it expired.
If the license stated that access could be revoked at any time, then why did you purchase it? If your next argument is about to be that it doesn't count, because you were ignorant of this fact, then tell SKG to stop opposing proposals for legislation to force better informing of consumers.
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>>737121317
>Fuck else are they gonna do? Make movies?
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>>737121471
Please show me the license that I can access without opening the box making it unable to be returned. Bonus points for not telling me to look it up somewhere else.
Also terms like that are illegal in the EU, burgers don't have rights for anything
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>>737121471
So if I buy a TV from a store, but somewhere it says they have the right to reclaim the TV back any time they want, then it's okay if they do it just because I bought it, since it means I agreed to that?
EULAs and ToSs can't override actual laws, you retard. That's what you're not getting. It doesn't matter what they say, it matters what the law says. If the law says a sale is a sale, a sale is a sale, and they better fucking honor it.
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>>737121639
More examples of mindlessly insisting on their own ignorance.
Buying limited access to a service != buying the underlying service.
The affirmation of this really being the one sickly leg that this whole initiative desperately balances on, is really nice. Now go get a judge to rule on the matter.
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>>737121708
I get paid based on how many replies I get from Mr Software
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>>737121331
>your vehicle cannot be driven.
How.
How the fuck did this shit actually hit the market. How did we get to this point.
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>>737121818
Unironically "GUBERMENT BAD" people being allergic to any regulations and allowing corpos do what they want in order to squeeze their customers dry
>But competition-
Will be crushed by big boys or simply bought out
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>>737121763
>Now go get a judge to rule on the matter.
Got one! >>737120437
You really should try another angle, shill. This "Product =/= License" point is pretty much done and dusted.
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>>737121809
It's a literal equivalence, moron. It's the same principle. Or do you think slapping "license for this TV" would work anywhere?
>>737121817
The only reasonable explanation for that level of shilling.
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>>737121192
Did people forget when Deadmau5 got a cease and desist from Ferrari lol
https://www.stites.com/resources/trademarkology/deadmau5-gets-in-trade mark-catfight-with-ferrari/
What's allowed isn't so black and white
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>>737121960
>This "Product =/= License" point is pretty much done and dusted.
>"pretty much"
Good job demonstrating that you actually do understand that you haven't had a judge rule on what SKG is pushing yet lmao.
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>>737120747
>Sell a million copies
>Shut down after 3 years
>Give a full refund as required by law to one million people
>End up with zero dollars
This is the most retarded idea I've ever seen to fix this problem. People say it's insufficient because it's obviously unsustainable to a ludicrous degree
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>>737122114
>FerrariUSA
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>>737122141
>you haven't had a judge rule on what SKG is pushing yet
Because SKG hasnt hit a court of law yet. The legal precedent and general opinion on the matter are clear as crystal though.
Dont feel too bad about it, corposhill. You did your best.
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>>737113958
So I've read about and I honestly dont understand its purpose.
They say if some law gets created its not going to be retroactive. So only shitty-ass GAASlop like Marathon and Fairgame$ are going to be saved?
If thats the case I'd rather let the corporations win this one.
The people stupid enough to waste money on this shit dont deserve to have fun.
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I will never understand why people defend legitimately evil corporate practices that are made to fuck you over, you the consumer, you the buyer, you the one who pays for the thing. You who defends them, you are getting fucked and you still defend it? What kind of weird masochistic person you need to be to have so little respect for yourself?
You as the consumer should have all the rights, all the protections, you wanna 3D print a part you need for a device you got 15 years ago? Have fun
It should be your right to do whatever you can.
You should not have to care about MBA money people who are there to fuck you over in any way they can, why should you have mercy towards people who hate you? If you are planning to stop selling something, why can't someone make it work in any way, you don't have to provide anything just don't shut that down.
NOOOOOOO BUT NOT MY GUBERMENT PIPO, brother do you really think any corporation or institution will ever do anything for you? The state should for for you not the other way around, they should do everything for the consumer for the people and not for the billionaires and corporations because of brib.. i mean lobby laws being shit.
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>>737122194
Excuse me, but that's merely your opinion.
>>737122297
>Because SKG hasnt hit a court of law yet.
There you go! Now go actually make a judge rule on your arguments, as I said.
I don't know why you're trying so desperately to convince me that the law is already settled in the same breath though. I'm not the one you need to convince.
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>>737113958
If you can't 1v1 win against Ross in UT04 than stfu
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>least obvious corporate bootlicker
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>>737122351
Careful, you'll trigger the commie hivemind.
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>>737115119
>publisher:
Publishers don't get to say anything to begin with and the hearing isn't about arguing over law terminology or technicalities anyways. The people in parliament despite being fucking retarded seem to be smart enough to have abstract thinking skills, a skill that an autist like you is missing apparently.
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>>737122564
>Calling something an opinion doesn't make it one.
Oh I'm sorry Mr. Judge! I didn't realize you'd already made and enacted your ruling on the matter! How many SKG fines have you placed on GaaS providers so far?
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>>737122551
>I don't know why you're trying so desperately to convince me that the law is already settled in the same breath though
Because there's a legal precedent for it. This part of the argument is set in legal stone, no matter how much it hurts you to admit.
>I'm not the one you need to convince.
This sounds like projection after you spent an entire thread trying to convince people of your "You didnt buy a product, you bought a service!" narrative and got btfo.
>Excuse me, but that's merely your opinion.
And you're still doing it. How sad.
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>>737122619
>If you really can't think of a game you like that can be easily killed
I cant because I dont play any game with a GAAS tag.
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>>737122619
>"If you don't mindlessly consoom GaaS slop, you're not a real gaymer!"
t. every SKG supporter ever
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>th-this will never go anywhere!
>this is bad thing why would you want this!
>I-I helped you y-you're welcome
Holy moly is there anything you won't say you faggot furry RAT bitches damn Ross raped you hard.
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>>737123183
Jesus calm down. Stop seething over e-celeb shit.
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>>737123303
You won't infringe on my intellectual property rights, and you'll HATE it, mindless GaaS consoomer.
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>>737123321
>guy has been spamming cat pics for 3 hours because he's butthurt at Stop Kike Gays
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>>737122252
>Sell a million copies
of what? Bread? Medicine? Furniture? Any product or service that people pay money in exchange for? That's called property, and it's mine.
>Shut down
So the distributor takes away property. A game that is inoperable after service ends is not the same thing the customer paid for. It is property that has been destroyed.
>after 3 years
So a company decides that all the bread, medicine, and furniture that I've bought should be taken away 3 years after the fact. Funny thing is that property law usually doesn't let one entity take property from another without compensation on a whim
>Give a full refund as required by law to one million people
Indeed, I am being compensated for the loss of my property
>End up with zero dollars
Because the company decided to take away property I have a legal right to.
>People say it's insufficient because it's obviously unsustainable to a ludicrous degree
It's unsustainable for consumers to exchange money for goods and services that can revoked without an equal exchange of value. The government protecting the property rights of people is the purpose of a government. Until living, breathing companies start showing up in the census, it will always be the government's role to protect the property rights of PEOPLE.
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>>737123579
Intellectual property rights encompass every EU citizen you retarded burgoid.
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>>737118294
>Retiring from providing a service for a while, does not mean that you should have your rights to your intellectual property infringed upon.
What IP rights are being infringed on? How does allowing a legally purchased copy of a game to be played offline violate one's IP ownership? Does buying a game grant me partial ownership of a developer's IP?
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>>737114703
I dont buy triple A, but others do
I have no other option to control the markets
If you have money you can just hire an army of shills to advertise your game on /v/ for free
source: catalogue full of RE/Capcom shill threads that always ask a question in their OP to generate as many organic replies as they can
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How does patching a game to run offline or releasing dedicated_server.exe infringe on your intellectual property rights? This is not some new foreign concept. Almost every game with a multiplayer component used to do this and they never lost their property rights.
I remember the good old days of "Host Game" and "Local Area Network" in my games, and I'll be getting them back, thanks to Ross.
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>>737123862
>His distorted reality now hinges on the belief that no European Citizen would speak up for European intellectual property rights.
Ay caramba!
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>>737124104
>How does patching a game to run offline or releasing dedicated_server.exe infringe on your intellectual property rights?
You can play old games which means you don't buy new games which means Yves can't buy a new lambo.
Simple as.
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>>737124067
>I dont buy triple A, but others do
Then let others buy the entertainment of their choice commie.
We don't want your retarded central planning.
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>>737114703
More like incapable of playing a game without online servers cause devs said fuck you while making it, cant wait for every game to become singleplayer offline in the future
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>>737124259
>Only always-online slop games exist!
Case in point you retarded zoomer.
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>>737124104
>How does patching a game to run offline or releasing dedicated_server.exe infringe on your intellectual property rights?
because if you keep your purchased product despite corporation trying to take it back, you're cutting into their profits and future plans of selling it back to you. Despite, y'know, the fact that you actually bought and own the fucking thing.
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>>737124250
>commie
Like clockwork
I dont give a shit what you burgers do, you can drown in poojeet and kike shit for all i care if that means avoiding hecking "gommunism"
The scamming of EU gamers will stop
Next up, the banning of influencing public forums using chat bots and paid actors or "shills" as we like to call them
Better start looking for a new job elsewhere
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>>737124487
Are you saying people won't buy games they already own? Or not buy sequels to a game they previously bought? This is objectively false.
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>Oy vey I hate those Games as a Service which is why I never ever buy them but don't you think it's wrong that the goyim won't be able to buy them as much if this succeeds? We need to fight against this gross government oversight hampering a product that I completely hate actually.
Who do you think you're fooling?
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Daily reminder that during the golden era of video games no publisher was able to just stop your game from working. Yet the corporate stooges that post on here pretend that we will "kill" gaming by forcing companies to build games with solid foundations (something they did for decades prior with ease, and something which will cost them nothing once implemented).
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>>737124703
The Crew, which is the entire basis of what set this thing off, was not a GaaS game, you absolute retard.
Even ignoring that, you are affected by GaaS shit even if you buy the games or not, because the same design philosophies carry over to other games.
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>>737123463
SKG has nothing to do with IP.
Also, IP isn't real property, it isn't even a thing, it's just a bunch of barely related concepts, all of which violate actual rights and liberties. So I will actually infringe upon it, and there's nothing you can do. SKG will also succeed, but that is, again, unrelated.
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>>737124646
>He has lost track of the conversation
Skill issue
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>>737115270
They don't go after weasel words because that's a separate issue that's so universally hated it doesn't need lobbyists, and the EU is already taking measures against it in a way that includes more industries than gaming. You can already get in trouble for refusing someone a refund for his "service license."
Making a game available past a moneyholder's personal whims is a more niche issue that needs advocates to live.
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>>737122619
Lol what? I don't play garbage. I'm just happy that the judes are going to be pulling their hair out now that they have to commit to their shit tier gaymes as a service slop and lose money if they try to keep it online for like 40 concurrent players. If you play gaas garbage then you have no brain and are probably brown skinned. This doesn't effect me.
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>SKG has nothing to do with IP
A judge will have to decide on that. Sorry buddy.
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>>737125470
Well apparently the one that produces the triple-A GaaS slop that SKG retards are fiending for.
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Some of the posts itt make me think half the anons are either
>fully domesticated cattle
>non-sentient retards
>bots
>actual corpo employees
>trolls who aren't serious
Who in his right mind doesn't want to own what he paid for lmao
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>>737125530
Suck on both of my nuts bitch. Go back to playing your assfaggots or gta5 or whatever. All the good games have already been made and theres nothing to expect from AAA games anymore. Like I said im happy about this movement succeeding because its going to cause kvetching on a massive scale. I just don't play games that are swarmed with adhd brown alphoids and zoomers so this doesn't make my life better or worse in any way.
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>>737114545
Not only that, but they will think twice before shitting out an entire concord roadmap.
Imagine if concord woud have released after skg.
No tax write offs, no enforced refunds.
Sony woud be forced to hold the burning bag.
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>>737125770
Why pretend that that is the issue, when the SKG initiative and Ross keeps spamming that they don't care about consumers being informed?
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>>737125906
If someone paid for a game they should be able to keep playing it for the rest of their life, just because companies start informing you you're about to get rugpulled doesn't mean the rugpulling is ok.
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>>737126085
>the courts
This isn't a court, this is the European Parliament. They make laws and shit, they have precedent of acting on shit like this. Chances are very good that they'll do something... eventually.
Personally I'm still waiting for them to get rid of daylight savings but it's been like 11 years since they promised to do it
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>>737126274
>Yet another SKG supporter, insisting on having paid for a game, and not limited access to one. In a conversation about consumer information supposedly not mattering.
You retards truly are your own worst enemy.
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>>737123116
to be clear, GaaS isn't the only target of this. usually, laws being considered even exclude free games.
this is also for the growing trend of companies like sony force-uninstalling your games or locking functionality on a fresh disk behind a day-1 patch. they test the waters every now and then like that demo from the Silent Hill creators a few years back, or DiRT 2, but if their ever-increasing responsibility to the bottom line ever convinces them, any old game you're comfortable staying on is in play.
The only real defense is physical media from before the PS3. Disk media has been slowly delaminating over the years, though, so I hope you've got a plan that doesn't just involve killing yourself when you're old.
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>>737125906
You don't get it.
Your average consumer doesn't understand what they're "consenting" to because even the publishers themselves don't know. Your game could last one month or ten years for all you know.
But consent doesn't fix the problem either. If publishers just said "this game will only last one month" do you think that actually fixes anything?
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>>737122252
or
>design game with dedicated servers already, or use your announcement time (or start earlier, you're not retarded) to implement them
>no money lost besides paying your people, which should have happened anyway
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>>737126629
Nah. They should just clearly express to even the most retardedly dense of you, that "Your access to this game, lasts only as long as we decide."
Now if you continue to give them money and act indignant after that, then it's time for the psych ward.
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>>737113958
So instead of actually making better games, he instead is going to waste billions of taxpayer money and millions in donations from his supporters to... Maybe perhaps affect legislature so you can keep playing GAAS shit released AFTER the legislation date, after it gets shut down 30 years down the line from there (and you will be 80+).
This is why eurotrannies will always ALWAYS be behind America.
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>>737127015
Corpo jews aren't going to lose shit. Again, this will ONLY affect games being released AFTER the legislation date (20+ years from now) and companies situated outside of the EU can just ignore their petulant demands. Reminder that Apple got fined 20 million dollars for breaking EU regulations for over 10 years and making trillions off of being non-compliant.
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>>737126909
>So instead of actually making better games
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
this is what corporate shills actually believe.
name 10 good games from this industry from the last 10 years. go on, try it.
all that scam money should be giving us masterpiece after masterpiece, right?
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>>737126938
Your brain is fried on low IQ populism. Who gives a fuck about "The industry".
Buy games that allign with your principles, or don't and stfu lmfao.
>>737127002
No he's not. This is quite literally how retarded you SKG fags are.
>"Muh billion dollar industry is forcing me to give them my money!"
>"B-but if I don't buy every fucking triple-A, how will i continue to live???"
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>>737126938
Cannot imagine having this much of a smooth brain. I hope for your sake you're just an industry shill (and getting paid for this) and aren't actually this retarded.
This industry survived for decades prior to the internet. It doesn't need GaaS shit. And if it did then it's time for it to die.
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>>737126909
we're getting a law in California advised by him, anon. same rules as the EU bill.
any US company that does business in california tends to lose court cases there if they don't follow cali's laws everywhere. it's why corpos all have the same time-off rules at work or only mention cali food safety thresholds when you're buying food all the way in fucking virginia.
in short, we're getting this everywhere in the US.
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>>737126613
>w-what? me, OWNING things?!?!
>preposterous!
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>>737125147
>Because you say so?
Because it is fact? Ports don't buy themselves y'know
>Is that why they try to delist and disable support for older games in favor of pushing remakes and remasters?
That's probably a reason yeah
>Stop killing games, you fucking jew.
Don't know where you got the idea I don't support SKG, I'm just explaining that an old game being playable does not prevent a company from selling that same game in the future
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>>737113958
Marketers beaten by a guy straight out of art school. Good luck mister Ross.
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>>737127824
>MUH VOTE WITH MUH WALLET
This doesn't exist you retard because the games make their profits off whales (aka less than 10% of the playerbase).
One whale is worth 10,000 of you. Your wallet doesn't account for shit. Dumb faggot.
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>>737127738
By a judge? Oh wait, no it hasn't been. Nice try.
>>737127932
That's a nice opinion, now how about you try convincing European judges of the same thing?
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>>737113958
le hecking wholesome Ross-chan
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Games are a service not a product. You are not entitled to keeping owning that product it's a license that the publisher allows you to play. They can revoke that license at anytime.
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>>737128008
More like you pay for a ticket to a concert where they then announce that the musical guest will not be performing because they didn't make enough profit.
According to you getting a refund will kill the entire music industry.
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>>737128080
What is it with retards and the inability to engage with perfectly apt analogies. (It's the need to be bad faith, when you know you're otherwise fucked)
Now imagine if this was a concert where recording devices were confiscated beforehand, and no DVD recordings are sold afterwards. Try to actually engage with his argument you brainrotten populist.
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>>737118581
Can you imagine a world without highguard? (very easily, in fact it's harder to imagine a world with highguard now that it's gone.)
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>>737128326
>imagine if this was a concert where recording devices were confiscated beforehand, and no DVD recordings are sold afterwards
>has to go into fantasy land or his arguments fall apart and die
LOL! Dude, you're a shitter. If you need a magical crutch to push trough your arguments maybe you're just plain wrong, have you considered that?
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>>737125047
Reminds me of the old Games For Windows DRM that made a bunch of singleplayer games unplayable because the hyper aggressive DRM no longer had a way to contact the dead authorization service. Whole game on disc, just no way to even touch it because Microdick said we can't be fucked to patch the DRM.
Even fucking EA did better than that with some of their old PC games.
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>>737128438
>Shut down game and EOS the product
>"Uh, no you can't have an offline version of the game because I'll uh... maybe revive it later, yeah totally"
If they are just going to randomly revive the same game years later then me having an offline version clearly doesn't matter unless you are so Jewish you are going to tell me they plan on charging me again for the exact same game I purchased years ago.
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>>737115119
Considering the microscope they're currently under, i'd be careful bringing up the license bit unless you want to lose that too.
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>>737117151
the initiative got millions of signatures to even reach eu parliament, retarded shill.
>noooo stop talking about it
Seethe. After your attempts fail they're going to fire you too, faggot.
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>>737128232
Ok then tell me up front right on the store page or box like mmos and shit do. If you don't then go fuck yourself. Even if this just leads to games having an expiry date on the box like a carton of milk I will be happy.
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>>737128570
They're making this stuff to exploit their workers and the market. It doesn't matter if I'm buying it or not because they're testing the waters for an infinite revenue stream and if it fails they'll cancel it asap before giving it a chance so they can label it as a tax writeoff.
This is why so many get pumped out and fail pretty much over night and get quickly forgotten. The companies are banking on you forgetting about their failures and market tests so you can invest and keep investing so they can keep their reputation while pumping out more tests.
If you force them to either keep these games on the market and give players an option to even run these games it'll be a permanent stain on their records that will still be playable for social media.
This looks bad at all angles and there's less ways to push failures under the rug, Imagine every mobile game SE pushed out that they're no longer supported had to stay on the google play store alongside their newest mobile game.
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>>737115552
>Ok, then we should forbid "selling" revocable licenses whose terms are against EU consumer protection laws.
I mean we should but the second someone says this Mircojews, Disney, and a million other massive software companies who dwarf vidya will come out of the woodwork to giga fuck the movement.
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>>737116446
>do euros actually OWN the games they buy?
Yes. We do. We own the copies we buy. Even when there isn't a physical carrier we literally own an ephemeral instance of the abstract bytes making up the game's code and assets.
The license is secondary and ancillary to those copies, like additional terms of sale. Moreover, regardless of presence or validity of a license - under the copyright laws of most countries in the European Union, simply the ownership of the copy grants you an irrevocable right of use. A valid license is not a legal necessity to obtain said right of use, and a license cannot legally limit said right of use either.
WE - OWN - OUR - GAMES.
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>>737129101
I really doubt that. What you're looking at is paid opposition and false flags. The people that ended up raising the most awareness near the end of the campaign were Americans and some Canadians. Nobody likes being fucked over.
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>>737129038
Anon, all the game's i've bought recently have been European.
>Cyberpunk 2077
>Jagged Alliance 3
>BG3
>KCD II
>ECHO
>Alan Wake 2
>Helldivers 2
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2
>Noita
>etc.
There are no American games that i care about.
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>>737124401
>Only always-online non woke games exist!
This is more accurate
>>737127592
I don't want to depend on other players nor internet, just make singleplayer Kino and nothing else
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>>737120747
Ross explained that at the same time, tardo. The games are considered a cultural item, not just a product. Including being owned by the consumer. They don't want to be remunerated for the product, they want it to continue existing.
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>Entire thing could have been about digital ownership
>Aka companies being able to use AI mod tools to ban you from shit you own with zero recourse, look at how much people have to deal with that shit in WOW atm for why zero protections just fucks the players
>Hell even that shitty amazon MMO had streamers getting banned from being mass reported
>But no, instead its about unpopular AAA games getting shut down
Literal clown shit
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I've yet to see a proper argument as to why providing an offline patch would be IP infringement aside from "uhhh people won't buy future games". What would make a game patched to work offline any different from a game that could be played offline since day 1? How exactly does the end user, who legally purchased their copy of a game or license or whatever, profit from being able to use what they purchased?
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Enjoy waiting in line for your weekly ration of a single loaf of stale bread.
After you let communism win and we are all living in a nightmare dystopia I hope being able to play Darkspore again will have been worth it.
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>>737129307
>I'm entitled to people making entertainment that alligns with my sensibilities.
Make your own game, or have faggots who think like you make anything of value... Oh wait, you just made the point that people like you are incapable of that.
Well I guess we're back at this whole thing being a skill issue.
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>>737125892
That is actually a great side benefit. Big corpo will be forced to actually lose money over giga-flops like that.
This is actually going to either break woke shit or this kind of GaaS. Probably the latter.
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>>737129141 (cont.)
Note that where this get especially interesting is with Directive 1993/13 - aka the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (UCTD).
It defines what constitutes an unfair contract term, and how such terms may not bind the consumer.
In an annex it also provides a (non-exhaustive) list of terms that are in any situation to be deemed unfair - and thus may not bind the consumer.
One of those are any term with the object or effect of making a contract binding on a consumer, whereas performance of the contract by the other party is subject to a condition of their will alone.
Or to translate that to laymen's terms: if a term in the contract allows the publisher to decide through nothing but their own whim that they're going to end service and effectively kill the contract (note: object OR EFFECT (!!) of; direct intent is not a neccesity!) then the entire contract cannot bind the consumer and thus there is no contract entered into at all.
In other words; any license agreement stating the publisher can unilaterally just bend out and fuck you over, is not a valid binding license agreement. It does not bind you. It does not exist. BUT - because the law gives you a right of use through simple ownership of the copy of the software you bought, you can use that software no holds barred - however you wish.
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>>737129298
Japan holds corporate rights above human rights so that makes sense.
Though ironically enough they're actually the place that has put out the most full game/offline ver. (E.g. X Dive, Pocket Camp, etc.) or at least unit/scene viewer (that Pokemon figure battler, Merc Storia, etc.) versions of their GaaS titles (offset a bit by the huge amount of EoS'd shit with nothing) and have the least secured GaaS that let people put up private servers without any shutdown action taken.
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>>737122518
They're shills bro. We're not joking when we say companies hire people to try and push opinions that benefit them. They already spend hundreds of millions on advertising and lobbying, you really think they won't spend a few hundred thousand to hire some assholes to try and convince you you should care more about the corporation than your own rights and opportunities?
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>>737129579
So you're saying if I refuse to buy a game, I'm infringing on the gamedev's IP? Can you explain how exactly I profit from a game by not buying it? Sure, I'm saving my money, but I don't require their game to do that.
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Stop putting a killswitch in videogames, stupid faggot
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>You didn't even read it, did you.
I don't agree with what you insist on being issues you low IQ totalitarian commie.
People can make stuff for other people than you.
>Oh nooo, companies created something that flopped.
Why the fuck would I care if I didn't buy the trash?
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>>737129380
>Aka companies being able to use AI mod tools to ban you from shit you own with zero recourse
That's already illegal in the EU, and recently Twitter/X lost a court appeal where they were trying to get out from under having to revoke a shadow ban on someone. Which means the original 4000 EUR per day penalty payment originally set sometime back in ca. 2015 is back on. So that's a nice and cool approx. 30mil EUR fine now.
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I'll just make the Goverment force bug devs to make their already existing Kino singleplayer
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>>737129658
It's really easy to think that, I'd like to believe it too but I've seen too many americans barely struggling by under debt decrying "communism" when they're being offered a public healthcare option that would save them money.
The average american has been mindraped for 5 generations by their semitic owners (circumcision), most are slaves and will happily die a slave with nothing to leave for their children but debt and decay.
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>>737130169
Well obviously a game would have to be designed with end user-hostable servers in mind. It would be unreasonable to expect existing games to suddenly change all of their infrastructure just to allow player-hosted servers. Thankfully the SKG movement is only asking that this be applied to games made after regulation is made, not retroactively.
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>>737130232
Nigger were talking about modern games.
And even what you are posting is technically more than one server. The lobby server and in game server are two different things.
In fact having accounts is a third server in that image.
Hell the "game" servers tend to be multiple things now, anything with physics have layered ones for example so the actual "game" server wont chug.
Like yea no one gives a fuck if achievement or DLC servers dont exist though I can guarantee you people fighting for their dogshit GAAS games will cry bitch tears if their expensive skins are gone now.
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>>737130465
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>>737129038
Thanks, I will
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Okay, here's an arcade game that released in 2003. Thanks to community effort, you can host your own servers instead of paying bamco absorbent subscription fees and royalties.
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Ross is pro consumer. They fucking hate that. The fact that we came this far and have entire presentation of truth. Soon we're gonna have a law that forbids this shit entirely. You'll own everything and will be happy.
Lawyers already wanting to be part of this. It's a win - win for us.
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>EU law makes it clear that if you're selling something as a service, you have to have a clear date for when it ends
So you want a sticker on the back of the box saying this game might end?
Granted thanks for the millions of dollars, remember no refunds.
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>>737131045
I want a sticker on the FRONT of the box saying the game WILL end, and have it provide the exact date. When I buy a 30 day subscription to an MMO, it clearly says right on the card that it will expire in 30 days. I am fully made aware of this before purchasing it, and I can enjoy said subscription while keeping this in mind.
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Yes. Do with the license that has now expired, as you wish.
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>>I paid for it therefore it is mine to do with as I please
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>>737131315
Expressions of approval or disapproval in a hearing like this, does mean an argument is or isn't legally valid. When disputes on legal matters arise, judge rulings do.
This hearing of boomers talking about their kids being gamers, and the cake being a lie (yes literally), doesn't mean anything for the legal viability of anything proposed in SKG.
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>>737131547
>legal viability of anything proposed in SKG
They are literally asking for law to be changed, not applied. Judge rulings have no bearing on anything. We don't care about individual judge rulings in the first place over here, we don't use your fucking common law bullshit.
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>>737125769
You VASTLY overestimate the capability of logical thinking of the average person
Just like the aztecs or whoever shitskins they were, sacrificed their firstborn to the sun gods so the sun would continue blessing them with light, you can teach people all kind of skills, but they will go above and beyond to protect the current status quo, and refuse to listen to anything or anyone that threatens it
You're not dealing with people, you're dealing with barely sentient, reactionary beings
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>>737130383
>I have tech illiterate fatigue
I bet, it must be exhausting to be this fucking retarded
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>>737131547
Anon that is not how legislative law is made in the EU. This hearing is the EU commission asking EU representatives if this is worth moving forward on, which is the first of many steps on making legislation law. And considering basically everyone who spoke said "Yes, I support this. Please continue" there's no good reason why the commission would suddenly stop pursuing this from this hearing alone.
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You have been warned.
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>>737131303
Funny you mention it
We've gotta talk about that, please take a seat, this is gonna be a long one
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>>737131860
That's not the point anon. The point is that pointing to vague statements of approval in this hearing != that there's no difference between buying a limited license to access a service, and buying the underlying service. That would likely be for a judge to determine in the end.
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>>737132212
>The ones who made the law?
No. Euopean judges of European courts would have the final say.
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>No, it would be for lawmakers to legislate and judges to enforce.
Thanks for not understand wtf is being talked about. Consider looking into wtf the CJEU is buddy. And the role of a judge.
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>That would likely be for a judge to determine in the end.
I thought a judge already determined there was no difference? >>737116246
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>Games tend to be 6-7 plus servers at this point running in tandem.
It was made that way because there is no consideration toward continued use. This is not a gotcha, it's an admission of guilt.