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by ApolloFortyNine 21 days ago
>think they're going be in the "startup" founder position

Can't wait for the posts 10 years from now asking what happened to indie devs.

This bill alone won't do it, but as you pass regulations it gets harder and harder for a regular person to participate.

The worst rendition I've seen of this bill for Europe requires basically a development bond/retainer to 'ensure' there's dev time available to develop offline features. I.e, extra costs for devs who already by the numbers lose money releasing a game.

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This is absolute fearmongering. Indie devs aren’t the ones releasing this always-online quadruple A garbage in the first place. They will be affected the least, since their games already would work just fine if the company ever goes belly up.