It's interesting seeing the industry double down on proving just how badly end of life plans are needed for games. This is exactly the sort of thing #StopKillingGames wants regulators / MEPs to see. Customers increasingly have no protections when it comes to video games.
The new DRM on the PlayStation update is a disgrace to gaming, Sony should make a statement whenever this PlayStation Support message is real or faked.
This issue with this 30-Day Timer being applied to all new purchases isn't about having an active internet connection, but the concept of ownership.
Sony is taking the rights away from users who purchase their games digitally. If you go offline for more than 30 days, you're locked from playing a game that you bought with your own money.
Your console shouldn't require an active online internet connection to verify the purchase or the validity of a video-game that you've purchased previously in my opinion.
The full text for HR 8250, the proposed Federal law which would require all Operating Systems to implement Age Verification, has just been made publicly available.
It is short, poorly written, clearly not at all thought out, and almost entirely devoid of specifics.
Some key points:
- The bill does not specify how age verification would work at all. It states that the Federal Trade Commission would have 180 days to specify the exact mechanism and requirements for Age Verification within the Operating Systems.
- The Federal Trade Commission would also specify data storage protection requirements as well as requirements for how the Operating System must provide access to collected user data.
- This bill would apply to ALL Operating Systems. Everything from Windows to Linux to embedded systems. Yes, even to a smart refrigerator. The “Operating System” definition is incredibly broad.
- The law will be considered in effect 1 year from the date it is enacted.
- Violations of the law will be handled under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
- It is given the “Short Title” of “Parents Decide Act”.
https://t.co/u22o583kH2
i know things are crazy in this world, but please hold on to the hope that majority of people are good or want to be better.
please don’t close yourself off to others or think that people are out to get you in some way shape or form.
love people for who they are and not what they can give you.
protect yourself, but continue to love and put energy into the world that you want reflected back to you.
I absolutely loath this obsession with trying to make video games into movies and the need to be "taken seriously" by people who never liked games in the first place
This is for specifically folks on discord who have me as a friend
Do not trust this fucking thing! I implore you not to
I got hacked there and I am stressing out, I cant even get on my discord because of this....
This is not me, not at all!
Keep an eye out for this scam 😭