Is there a reason I dont see to why legally console makers can hoard online play functionality?
Like in a perfect world, we would have a right to run our own servers due to power abuse.
Like imagine offline contents would get ripped out of your hands for older games. The injustice here seems evident to me, especially in the current video game business full of greed and commercialization (like price discrimination).
With that we could also play our emulated games vs other emulators. That would make mario kart so much more valuable as a product to buy as a hard drive disk to emulate it legally, because the game's content is like 80% online play
The simple explanation is that businesses and governments dgaf about fairness or rights. If they can make money by paywalling online play, they will.
Thats why I said in a perfect world. I mean EU is doing at least something (below the minimum ofc) Like USB-C, apple or the gambling/lootbox thing in games
But yeah my suspicion was a bit more confirmed here that digital business is basically moving in a law free zone with their practices. (suspicion: tech corpo design products with the predatory sliders maxxed out in a way that only the tech savy could see when they actively question the stuff, which basically nedds like philosophy level logic sometimes given the issues at hand never existed before in our world. With online gaming being an example - one that pisses me off)