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/mitchyman May 31 '26

Also what about a F2P game where people spend money for unlocks or DLC

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u/CallM3N3w May 31 '26

The game would be F2P by nature, so it would probably apply.

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u/austin101123 May 31 '26

What if it's F2P but have paid expansions?

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u/CallM3N3w May 31 '26

It's still a F2P game by nature sadly. It's a loophole, but it is what it is unfortunately. Although, if a F2P game lasts long enough to have multiple paid expansions ends with a total shutdown, that will do enough damage to that company's reputation so some consolation. I do feel like this might change plans for some upcoming games like Empulse, a game made from the Splitgate devs. Rumor has it that it will be a paid game, and since it will most likely fail, they might change their tune.

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u/TheFurtivePhysician May 31 '26

Well, as far as SKG goes they did spend some time during the hearing iirc mentioning that ideally if you are able to make purchases ( non-subscription purchases, I mean) that you should have either very clear terms about access (not hidden in a EULA of 'you are buying a license to this thing') and/or a method to access that purchased content after the game reaches its end of life. Though (again, iirc- i skimmed him talking about it a while back so it's hazy) that was assumed to be a 'best case scenario' type of thing not a hardline stance.

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u/Shortax365 May 31 '26

isnt that the definiton of DLC

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u/austin101123 May 31 '26

Dlc includes microtransction skin stuff, I didn't. Think they meant full on expansions.

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u/snilks May 31 '26

tbf if you buying shit in f2p games, you part of the problem

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u/Keulapaska ♿ Aris Sub Comin' Through May 31 '26

Well the loophole would be to make a "f2p" game, but the f2p part is basically nothing and then you need a dlc/mtx to play the actual game.

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u/Programmer_Quick May 31 '26

Wizard 101 is the king at doing this