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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Entirely seriously:

While this is far from some kind of total victory, that a conversation is happening at all is much better than that not being the case.

I am guessing payprocs did not have any fucking clue the extent of backlash they would receive from just being extremely vauge / heavy handed.

Hopefully this can at least result in some more concrete and specific definitions of what they will and will not allow, so that existing platforms at least have an idea of what the actual rules are, and then from there, potentially a more targeted public pressure campaign could manifest.

If itch.io manages to get them to actually clarify the rules, this could lead to other platforms, Steam, Nutaku, etc, also reworking their allowed/not allowed games, now having more clarity and less fear of being totally nuked for violating vague guidelines.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

True, this is good news. But, it should not have come down to the entire fucking government of Japan weighting in on the global impacts of this insane decision!

Is this truly the amount of mountain-moving we have to do to counteract a single organization's opinion? There is a clear difference in effort required between one side and the other.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is this truly the amount of mountain-moving we have to do to counteract a single organization's opinion?

It looks like another commenter has already well replied to this, but uh, yes.

thunder crack

Welcome... to the real world.

...

Video games are treats.

Treats only flow by the arcane and abstract machinations of those with power, and those with power are fickle, greedy, and often do not busy themselves with the minutiae of the affairs of the hordes of useless eaters.

I agree with you, the power differential is absurdly vast, the situation is plainly 'unfair' by most viewpoints...

... but the question that matters is what are you going to do about that?

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