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This thought prompted by this video:
On Online Entitlement by CJ The X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLotGgneoys
we had this discussion already
the entire Steam forum was full of threads about how bad the state of demo visibility was and how annoying it was that developers were trying to get around that by releasing fake games
the reason demos show up in the new and trending list is that this would not be a solution to the problem people had if they didn't
just like how if games were automatically penalized for having generative AI in them, game developers would be incentivized to lie about whether the game had generative AI in it
If you're an EU citizen and you hate DRM and planned obsolescence, here's an easy petition for you to sign:
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
TL;DR: If online-only DRM servers shut down, publishers would be required to keep your game working regardless.
Only targets video games because that is where this practice is by far the most prevalent today, but it would set a precedent that we might soon need for things like phones, cars, and all the other things that are increasingly getting CPUs shoved inside them.
1 year to reach 1 million signatures.
only 24 hours!!!
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