Even if they did all this, it’s still Microslop, the next rugpull is just right around the corner. I’ll never go back, i don’t care how much better they make their spyware delivery system.

People are very good at humanizing animals and objects. If it talks or has a face, it’s subconsciously seen as a person.

Chipotle isn’t closing though. They still want to sell you games. Just new ones.

Servers cost money.

Yes

Making server side code available takes effort and money.

No. Why do I know this? Because it was the norm until way into the 2000s for games to just have a server browser and people running their own servers. That only changed when publishers increasingly wanted to keep players inside their own infrastructure to better sell them microtransactions and subscriptions. Without those, the one time cost of creating standalone server code for a release to the users is easily offset by not having to run your own servers for the game.

There are a number of different possible architectures for online features. Games don’t have to be designed in a way that makes it difficult to release server code after EOL. And if they still are after this regulation passes, the studios and publishers only have themselves to blame.

The point of the guac analogy is the entitlement to say that you as a consumer gets to dictate a price singlehandedly.

Which is why it’s a flawed analogy, because this is not about prices. It’s about what you as a customer get to do with the product you bought after you bought it. And it’s about if it’s ok to even design a product in a way where those rights can’t be guaranteed.

You haven’t really adressed my points in any way. It’s of course up to you, but as long as you haven’t, there’s no reason to be smug.

The important part is “to your server”.

Mostly big studios/publishers put “always online” requirements in single player games for a start. And even if it’s not only big studios, those requirements can be omitted without effort (if anything it reduces effort to not put them in).

Multiplayer games are a different beast, but I’d argue that yes, small studios rarely make games that exclusively rely on the developer’s own servers for multiplayer. That is because they are smaller studios and server architecture for a multiplayer game is a big investment for them. Even if I’m wrong there, future games can be designed with the legislation in mind (this would not affect existing games retroactively) and don’t have to keep using centralized server architecture for everything.

No, this is like a law that says once you paid for the guac they can’t come around to your table later and piss in it to make you buy a new pot of the new and improved guac they just released.

There’s no need to release any source code if your game doesn’t require an internet connection to your server to run in the first place.

The regulatory measure in this case is solved by “don’t make it require the player to be online”. That removes a complication, it doesn’t add one.

For multiplayer games it is solved by “make them like we already did in the fucking 90s, where players could run their own servers”.

I get that, but the first comment didn’t say they don’t know how to do their jobs because their productivity was reduced, it was because they were “dead in the water”. I read that as “unable to do their jobs without AI, period”.

Also it’s a bit funny because what’d actually reduce your productivity wouldn’t be AI dying, it would be a useless bullshit task your boss gave you although he doesn’t even read the report, according to you.

But you are not “dead in the water” if you suddenly can’t use AI to do it this month, right?

Many commenters were quick to point out that he should never have coupled his company so closely with Claude to begin with, a reasonable critique by itself. However, it’s worth noting that the story could have easily been the same if it had instead been Amazon Web Services, Azure, or an authentication provider like Okta.

You are so close, you almost got it!

You think only Americans can give their kids pretentious special snowflake first names?

I’d be fine with it if people could throw their fucking trash in a bin and leave the place like they found it.

but in 50 million years they will be the ones finding the ruins of our civilisation.

Not if they have the misfortune to be found by us they wont.

The same as you. “Sieben komma fünf”

It wasn’t my answer, but I’ll play the part.

I agree with you in cases where individual change is hard, costly and has barely any influence on the big picture (like your “individual CO2 footprint”). But in this case the individual solution is to quit using a terrible browser and install a free extension in the new one, and it has all the impact it needs because it makes the problem go away. I can’t take anybody seriously who will willingly put themselves through youtube ads when they are this easily avoided.

The problem stays the same, why should the answer change?

7, for sure. House doesn’t want to talk, I don’t want to talk, we’re cool.

It was fine until monday or so.

Doesn’t fix it for me. It was already set to android, I tried switching to apple and back, it only changes the look of the menu, not the positioning.