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That would require a complete re-architecture of game engines and complete rework of how the games are developed and published. If I had to satisfy those requirements next year, I just wouldn't release in Europe, and I say that as an European.

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>That would require a complete re-architecture of game engines and complete rework of how the games are developed and published.

No it wouldn't. Not even you believe the statement you just wrote lol.

If that would be true, there were no new games that would comply with this proposal.

But there are many.

Then just keep doing things the same way, but add a disclaimer that says you are only selling a license to play the game, and it's not guaranteed to work after a certain date.

Then like what happened with the cookie banners, everybody is going to put the minimum date, and the only winners will be the lawyers selling consulting in EU regulation compliance with the publishers.

You are begging the question, the question being whether consumers care. You believe they don't (e.g. that the expires-on date won't affect sales) and the creators of this petition believe people will care and will prefer games that do not have that expiry date.

So no, it's not inevitable that every game will just sprout an expiry date. It's possible but only if you're right that consumers don't care about owning versus renting games.

This is not an argument for doing nothing. It is an argument for phasing in these types of rules slowly.

fair enough, don't release it on europe and lose access to a market of 700 million people from the first world who pay the highest prices

maybe your game can live only by the sales of the US

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