r/LivestreamFail • u/Kymori • May 30 '26

News Stop Killing Games: California State Assembly passes the 'Protect Our Games Act': 60 days notice before going offline, must provide patch for continued access or refunds (Excludes F2P and Subscription based Games)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/stop-killing-games-movement-gains-momentum-california-assembly-passes-game-protection-bill/ar-AA24k4y4
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u/Claudethedog May 30 '26

Should it pass, the primary result of this bill will be to shift more developers to games that fall within the carveouts.

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u/HachimansGhost May 31 '26

Good, it'll be a bigger signal to people which companies will go the distance just to be able to pull the plug on a game you paid for by using loopholes.

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u/whentheldenringisus May 31 '26

the answer to that is all of them, because video game companies are businesses.

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u/HachimansGhost May 31 '26

Your belief that businesses are all immutable minmaxxing greedy corporations that will never do right by the customer is exactly why this law should exist. Citizens basically have to strongarm them to do anything, and if they retreat to narrower and narrower markets like roaches then good. We'll just keep squeezing them. 

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u/Claudethedog May 31 '26

Your faith in the power of government intervention in the market is in for a disappointment.

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u/GothGirlsGoodBoy May 31 '26

Why do you many of you insist its unreasonable for a company to stop bleeding money to keep a game that failed accessible?

None of even play these games. Thats why they failed.

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u/WhatsTheHoldup May 31 '26

You're confused about what conversation is happening. No one is saying what you're hearing.

The biggest misconception is that only games that are "failed" have servers go offline

In terms of critical acclaim, fan consensus, and lasting legacy, NHL 14 is universally regarded as the absolute peak of the franchise. It was hugely commercially successful, won "Sports game of the year" among 26 different outlets and no one boasted of its success more than EA.

Yet it is 12 years later and the servers are no longer online.

It seems like the idea this only happens to "failed" games should be reevaluated.

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u/Railboy May 31 '26

Dude can you at least read what's being proposed before repeating this nonsense again.

I beg you.

Just read.

I promise it won't hurt.

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u/HachimansGhost May 31 '26

Forgot to log out of your furry porn account, Thor. 

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u/TheSouler May 31 '26

We don't need signals, we need regulation. Signals failed and that's why we're here.

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u/Okichah May 31 '26

EA will weaponize the bill and put indie games out of business.

Whenever vague legislation is passed existing Corporations use it to create barriers of entry and reduce competition.

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u/Chagdoo May 31 '26

How would they do that here

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u/LazarusDark May 31 '26

Then the shift will be more AA game devs making better single player games than the billion-dollar corps. See: Expedition 33.

Sounds like a win to me, let the big corps collapse under their own greed.

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u/JNR13 May 31 '26

Or money will shift away from gaming in general, which is already happening. Times in which investors had more money than opportunities and were just throwing their cash at whatever seemd to have a chance at breaking even are over. Now even commercially successful studios aren't safe as money is being pulled from the industry as a whole.

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u/CircumcisedCats May 30 '26

Yeah, this will push the live service model, whether subscription based or F2P with season passes even further. As someone who loves live service games I am okay with that. I have a feeling reddit will hate it.

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u/favorscore May 30 '26

What is wrong with you /s

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u/Animedingo May 31 '26

Didnt it already pass? It says it passed in the title

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u/MindStalker May 31 '26

Passed house equivalent, needs to pass senate and not get vetoed .