I find the idea quite appealing as a 16 year old who has been a gamer since 5. Where I find fault in this is, and this is going to be the major hinderance to this idea, the legal issues that arise. For instance....
No. 3: "Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state." Users want support for a game after it's released. Believe it or not, they don't want buggy software that gets maybe one patch after launch. Gamers want a reasonable amount of support post-launch.
What this entails is a company to provide support for a game that no longer has any monetary gain for said company. That means that this business is being forced into a venture that is no longer profitable or beneficial. If you apply this to something like an extremely old cell phone company which is required to provide support and services to a practically non-existent cliental without cost to the customer, it just doesn't make sense. I couldn't agree more with the fact that some set of guidelines for a company to [roughly] adhere to would benefit them as well as their customers. I just don't like the idea of putting the creators of the games that we all enjoy playing into a headlock because of the 20 people who play an outdated game don't have support.
This next part is an area where I think you may have over stepped...
Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
Give me a break! Once again you force a company to spend funds on what is a possbile failure of a game when it could be going towards the next game of the year winner. I truly could not agree more with the fact that game developing companies treat their customers as threats, but in order for some agreement to be reached, treating them with the same hostility as they have treated us for years isn't going to fix a thing. Best of luck and I hope we can see at least some of these ideas come to fruition.
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I find the idea quite appealing as a 16 year old who has been a gamer since 5. Where I find fault in this is, and this is going to be the major hinderance to this idea, the legal issues that arise. For instance....
No. 3: "Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state." Users want support for a game after it's released. Believe it or not, they don't want buggy software that gets maybe one patch after launch. Gamers want a reasonable amount of support post-launch.
What this entails is a company to provide support for a game that no longer has any monetary gain for said company. That means that this business is being forced into a venture that is no longer profitable or beneficial. If you apply this to something like an extremely old cell phone company which is required to provide support and services to a practically non-existent cliental without cost to the customer, it just doesn't make sense. I couldn't agree more with the fact that some set of guidelines for a company to [roughly] adhere to would benefit them as well as their customers. I just don't like the idea of putting the creators of the games that we all enjoy playing into a headlock because of the 20 people who play an outdated game don't have support.
This next part is an area where I think you may have over stepped...
Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
Give me a break! Once again you force a company to spend funds on what is a possbile failure of a game when it could be going towards the next game of the year winner. I truly could not agree more with the fact that game developing companies treat their customers as threats, but in order for some agreement to be reached, treating them with the same hostility as they have treated us for years isn't going to fix a thing. Best of luck and I hope we can see at least some of these ideas come to fruition.
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