• highduc@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Lol what a hot take.

    No, we expect them to regulate a multi-billion dollar industry because that’s what governments do. Healthcare is a multi billion dollar industry. So is agriculture, and many others.

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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      3 days ago
      • healthcare: lives & health at stake
      • agriculture: environment & health at stake
      • video games: ?

      one of these is not like the others

      sorry, bruh: on a scale from critically important to idgaf, this ain’t ranking

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        12 hours ago

        Even if it’s literally just “money at stake” some countries would have reason to be concerned - because so many zero-IQ MBAs are pushing industries into a hot crash for short term gains that bankrupt any long term growth.

        Gamers having no faith that the games they buy remain theirs is one of many things that can drive down spending; though it will never happen on such a granular scale publishers would take action on it.

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        2 days ago

        What you’re missing is that after Brexit the EU is desperate to appear to citizens that they’re listening and this would be such an easy win that yeah, I really expected them to not only listen but actually get their fingers out of their collective arseholes and do something about it.

        Blah blah funding. Sure, start by targeting games that sell over X units or Y euros in revenue.

        If the article is correct then it’s a massive missed opportunity.