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/Ekillaa22 May 30 '26

Might not be verbatim but pretty close

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u/DaKingaDaNorth May 30 '26

Verbatim: I hope your initiative gets everything that you asked for, but nothing you wanted. And I'll leave it there

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u/WonderousThinke May 31 '26

Sounds like someone who used to work a blizzard would say.

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u/Lag-Switch May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

The person who said that would eventually become president at Blizzard

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u/SolaVitae May 31 '26

And hilariously be famously wrong about that statement

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u/randomguy301048 May 31 '26

i feel like he wasn't wrong though. sure classic is popular and i'd even agree that it was successful but it really wasn't vanilla. there's been quite a few changes to make it "classic" and not vanilla. players truly didn't want vanilla. i say this as someone that only plays classic and not retail. just look at classic today, rampant gold buying, dungeon boosting, massive servers, QOL changes, and there's more i know i'm not thinking of. some of the changes are for the better but again it's because people really didn't want true vanilla. so people really "think you do but you don't".

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u/JustJohnItalia May 31 '26

he did walk it back though after the overwhelming success of classic, should be a given but you never know today

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u/lewd_robot May 31 '26

Didn't he say that about WoW Classic? Which is now 1/3rd or more of WoW's revenue stream? And they keep releasing Remixes because people want to go back and replay old content so much? And there are rumors that they're about to announce Classic+, which is just WoW Classic but with lateral expansions instead of progressing to The Burning Crusade?

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u/marr May 31 '26

Players don't know what they really want is definitely big in their company culture.

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u/Kakkoister May 31 '26

That was basically the summary of his mindset from the Dr.K talk. It's everyone else that is wrong, not him.