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I agree it's a pretty sloppy fix, but I've seen so much overreach from game companies, seeing some push back by someone with teeth is a nice change. Honestly, the one issue I wish the government WOULD get involved with is the practice of shutting down servers to games and bricking them. It's basically fraud in my eyes, you pay them money, they give no guarantee of how long the game will last, then shut it down, and you can never play it again, by design, despite being completely preventable.
In the 90s, if you had a game that connected online and the company stopped supporting it... no biggie, you can still play the game anytime you want as long as somebody hosts a server.
Now, if you play almost ANY multiplayer games and even a few single player games that require an online connection and the company stops supporting it... that's it, you never play the game again.
No other industry would tolerate this, yet here we are. Lootboxes are just another step towards seeing what consumers will put up with. It won't stop here either.
They could also mandate that all multiplayer games have a dedicated server component available to the customer. Whether the customer actually has the infrastructure to run it might be another question, but as long as the server module is available. Never, EVER going to happen of course, but something like that might actually get me playing multiplayer games again.
In fact, pretty much the only multiplayer games I do play now either have a dedicated server, or have some kind of easy co-op game setup component through Steam. I run several servers for my kids and friends to occasionally join in. Not as much as I used to, but we have a nice Q3A rotation sitting idle for occasional matches, Terraria, Minecraft, etc. My kids' friends can join them on a safe server, I can play low ping to my friends in Quake once in a while. I'd play a lot more modern multiplayer games if I could run the server for select people. Way off topic now, but... I've got a little nostalgia cloud floating over my head now...