In practice this will be about 40 seconds of “Do we care?” “no” “anyway moving on…”
It is not just about killing game it is the practices on wild land that have to be considered as well.
good. gaming is very popular and it’s big business. parliament should take an interest.
“This killing Games Petition”
“What about it”
“Nothing”
“Cool, what’s next?”
The UK parliament give no fucks about what the people want and only care about furthering surveillance so this reaching parliament means nothing.
God we had this years ago. All scientific research revealed no correlation between violent games and violent tendencies.
I just want to point out this article is over a month old
It’s an interesting petition (I say as someone who’s worked on games that now just ain’t accessible at all) but the actual technical nuance of it is pretty heavy, especially with online games, especially ones using proprietary tech.
I have 0 faith in MPs who don’t know what a VPN is to be able to understand this at all.
As is the fate of all petitions in our ‘Democracy’, it will be a no. They will say something like “There are no current plans to change xyz”. The usual waffle.
If you want members of parliament to actually show up, I strongly suggest you write your MP and request they attend as your representative and share your thoughts on why this issue concerns you.
It’s a consumer rights issue at its heart and should be something all sane MPs care about.
Single player games or games with peer-to-peer multiplayer should have their phone-home requirements patched out before the authorisation servers are shut down, but I don’t think the same needs to be true where the server is acting as umpire or gamesmaster.
You know I read this first as meaning Govt want to ban games that has “killing” i.e. all FPS games Duh
I wish they’d delay this to after the EU one. I have no faith in UK politicians taking this seriously.
I’ve no faith in our MPs being competent enough to understand what the petition is even asking
no idea why this has to be a govt issue? We are consumer are we not? We can choose to boycott publishers/developers who cut games off from us.
They’re too out of touch to even understand or care what it’s about.
You’d have more luck running a Kickstarter to *ahem* “donate” some money to a few MPs than using a petition.
I’m surprised someone hasn’t tried that, publicised it, and then had it shut down because it’s illegal, but then highlight to the media all the private “donations” that ministers get, asking why that is different.
Yeah, this isn’t going to do much, although with how dogshit the Labour government are about things like this, I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided that they were going to ban all video games because of this.
Keir, if you’re reading this, don’t you fucking dare, I’ve waited over a decade for GTA 6!
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In practice this will be about 40 seconds of “Do we care?” “no” “anyway moving on…”
It is not just about killing game it is the practices on wild land that have to be considered as well.
good. gaming is very popular and it’s big business. parliament should take an interest.
“This killing Games Petition”
“What about it”
“Nothing”
“Cool, what’s next?”
The UK parliament give no fucks about what the people want and only care about furthering surveillance so this reaching parliament means nothing.
God we had this years ago. All scientific research revealed no correlation between violent games and violent tendencies.
I just want to point out this article is over a month old
It’s an interesting petition (I say as someone who’s worked on games that now just ain’t accessible at all) but the actual technical nuance of it is pretty heavy, especially with online games, especially ones using proprietary tech.
I have 0 faith in MPs who don’t know what a VPN is to be able to understand this at all.
As is the fate of all petitions in our ‘Democracy’, it will be a no. They will say something like “There are no current plans to change xyz”. The usual waffle.
If you want members of parliament to actually show up, I strongly suggest you write your MP and request they attend as your representative and share your thoughts on why this issue concerns you.
It’s a consumer rights issue at its heart and should be something all sane MPs care about.
Single player games or games with peer-to-peer multiplayer should have their phone-home requirements patched out before the authorisation servers are shut down, but I don’t think the same needs to be true where the server is acting as umpire or gamesmaster.
You know I read this first as meaning Govt want to ban games that has “killing” i.e. all FPS games Duh
I wish they’d delay this to after the EU one. I have no faith in UK politicians taking this seriously.
I’ve no faith in our MPs being competent enough to understand what the petition is even asking
no idea why this has to be a govt issue? We are consumer are we not? We can choose to boycott publishers/developers who cut games off from us.
They’re too out of touch to even understand or care what it’s about.
You’d have more luck running a Kickstarter to *ahem* “donate” some money to a few MPs than using a petition.
I’m surprised someone hasn’t tried that, publicised it, and then had it shut down because it’s illegal, but then highlight to the media all the private “donations” that ministers get, asking why that is different.
Yeah, this isn’t going to do much, although with how dogshit the Labour government are about things like this, I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided that they were going to ban all video games because of this.
Keir, if you’re reading this, don’t you fucking dare, I’ve waited over a decade for GTA 6!
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