want the government to have more control over games
Sure, any amount of new laws is technically the government having more control over something. I have no qualms admitting there are unanswered questions and this could explode into an EU bureaucratic nightmare, but what SKG is asking for is quite simple. Game developers that sell games with online dependencies must create a plan for twilighting the game ahead of time, so the product you bought continues to function in some reasonable way at end of support. From a technical standpoint, this is easily accomplished because developers will typically have pre-integration test builds anyway, using placeholders instead of AWS or fancy clustering databases. Licensing of third party components (game libraries) and content (music) is probably the biggest hurdle. The proposal does not ask for retroactive changes either and would only apply to new games created after the law goes into effect.
Companies are trying to stop this.
Companies would be fine with the government having control over games if they thought it benefited them in some way. Regulations typically benefit big corporations after all.
Sure, any amount of new laws is technically the government having more control over something. I have no qualms admitting there are unanswered questions and this could explode into an EU bureaucratic nightmare, but what SKG is asking for is quite simple. Game developers that sell games with online dependencies must create a plan for twilighting the game ahead of time, so the product you bought continues to function in some reasonable way at end of support. From a technical standpoint, this is easily accomplished because developers will typically have pre-integration test builds anyway, using placeholders instead of AWS or fancy clustering databases. Licensing of third party components (game libraries) and content (music) is probably the biggest hurdle. The proposal does not ask for retroactive changes either and would only apply to new games created after the law goes into effect.
Companies would be fine with the government having control over games if they thought it benefited them in some way. Regulations typically benefit big corporations after all.