Guy who is the director of strategy for a publisher that only has thus far worked on a live-service game:

guys pleaaase don’t regulate live-service
we need a totally-deregulated industry for uhh innovation and stuff
do you want politicians telling you what games to play
this will kill the cash flow
what if people do sabotage to accelerate end-of-life to get private servers
please do not consider whether or not this is more likely or better than a studio just killing their own servers and litigating against people who try to preserve the game
its totally unsustainable to have ~~right-to-repair~~ erm uh ~~emulation~~ uuuuuhhhhh sorry post-end-of-life preservation
it’s disrespectful to holy IP praise be
you had the game for ten years already
who really cares about art preservation anyways
this is tyranny

Literally a

Glad to see I'm not the only Ross Game Dungeon enjoyer, also yeah Thor is fucking insufferable

You can tell by his face he’s insufferable. Yes I’m breaking out the nerd callipers.

also does Thor seriously think that the game companies won’t advocate for their case to the EU legislature once the initiative is raised into parliament??? Does he think that direct democracy exists like that at this very moment? The law is just enshrined from the initiative itself immediately? no process, no consultation, no bureaucracy, nothing??? Thor. Buddy. I’m giving you all the respect I can physically muster and am going to put aside your blatant conflict of interest and assume you genuinely believe this and genuinely worry outside of your own benefit here—are you fucking five years old? Do you have any idea of how government works? Do you pay attention to anything at all?

For someone who is supposedly a fierce union advocate, this tantrum betrays a toddler’s understanding of how actual corporate-subject bargaining works. It is the responsibility of the party adversarial to the status quo to present a radical view of change that puts the entrenched entity on the backfoot.

If you were to do what Thor says and present an ironed-out compromise plan as your first card, you’re sacrificing your queen to capture an undeveloped pawn. You absolutely do not know ball. They’ll kill you. What about the past three decades of Democratic Party strategy has convinced you that compromising at the start is a way to affect change??? You create the conditions for a compromise plan by getting those benefiting from a lack of change worried that they’ll face significant material consequences that would make their current mode of profit unsustainable, and then you negotiate with their brokers.

This is the same fucking repulsive logic that has radlibs scolding people for using their vote as a bargaining chip and not pledging fealty immediately to the Nothing Will Fundamentally Change Train after the Great Vibe Shift. You don’t get anything from capitalists and power brokers unless they’re scared. You have to scare them.

Anyone that makes their money scamming kids on YouTube isn’t worth listening too.

Drafting full legal documents covering every edge case seems to be main idea for a legislation in EU, and then liberast dorks complain there is way too much legislation going. Then again there was the case where EU had to add that ALL the cows they give subsidies for need to be real and alive because some guys in Romania i think got few years worth of subsidies for a thriving cow farm which was 95% virtual.

isn't this person's whole shtick making shitty takes so they can farm views on youtube and redirect people to their stream?