• Don_alForno@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    It would be so funny if the EU decided Sony was a gatekeeper on the consoles without disc drives and forced them to allow 3rd party app store on them.

    Hey, a guy can dream.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      What the EU actually needs to do is to spearhead and help find everyone a way to actually “own” digital things. I think I’d be fine with not having a disk drive if I could buy my game, not be reliant on servers to download it in the future, trade my games with friends, and choose to sell it when I felt like it.

      We need to find a way to get back (most of) the benefits of physical media without actually having to go back to it.

      • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        “If a game needs a server and the official servers shut down, the protocols have to be released to the public”. I think it would be a good starting point.

    • kalleboo@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      The gatekeeper legislation sets minimums for revenue before you’re counted as a gatekeeper, and all the game consoles are too small a market to count.