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Turkey prepares to block Steam and Epic Games. Hello, piracy! (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 days ago by kaptan@hackerz.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hey everyone.

Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban "risky" content. This isn't just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we'll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

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[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Encouraging is one thing, and of course any business wants to encourage their consumers to, we'll, consume from them. However, that is not what Epic does, or Buggysoft, or any of the other giants. They FORCE their consumers into a whole lot of crap to FORCE money out of them. Encouraging and forcing are 2 completely different terms.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Valve is definitely the best and the most innovative, particularly in contrast to Epic's attempt to bribe their way to success and intentionally ignoring Linux, but even the best have their faults.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

Absolutely agree, everyone, institutions or individuals, have flaws. I was just pointing out that Valva is not comparable to most, if not all, the big names in gaming in terms of following a more customer-centric culture.

It stands to reason that they want their DRM to be used, otherwise, why even design it, right? The 'forcing' part on many factors that Epic and most others resort to is what really grinds my gears.