I'll add, "my government might get pissed off at one of the companies involved" to my list of reasons why always-online games are a terrible idea.
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Why wouldn't a multiplayer-focused game be always online?
Self-hostable servers, this way if their datacenters go down, game is still playable
I feel like bytedance is doing this on purpose to rule people up, as these kinds of services weren't explicity called out.
It may backfire though. I don't think most Americans know how much is influenced/owned by Chinese companies.
This feels like ByteDance going out of their way to paint the outgoing president and party as truly awful and give the victory to Trump in a week
I think they know that saying “you’ll look better than Biden” is a great way to manipulate trump into doing just about anything.
Time to switch to Marvel Flatpak
I'm still playing Marvel Strike Force. The dev has become Ahab hunting whales, but it passes the time
finally, I was getting tired of using Marvel AppImage in protest of snaps! :P
Trump will fix this. After a small payment from the companies. And then just ignoring the law.
Rumor mill is already spreading like wildfire.
Commenters are concerned about League of Legends and every other Chinese owned game studio without a US backer.
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Its almost like there are consequences of banning something folks don't understand the full scope of...
And nothing of value was lost.
I dunno about that.
There's gonna be a bunch of angry Unstable 12yos uncertain what to do now that their gacha crack was torn away from them.
Crack taken away from children, what of value was lost again?
I see you never taken crack away from a fiend. It's not what's immediately lost, but the destruction along the way
It actually looks like ByteDance is blocking them to generate uproar. The law only required to remove the app from app store
It prohibits other companies from providing support services to them too.
huh, had no idea it was made by bytedance as well
Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of "American" companies for instance, I bet there's several on that list that would surprise you.
I recall that tencent had like a small stake in Reddit too. Like 10% or something like that. Or am I remembering wrong?
As of their last filing in September it is 10 to 12%
They invested money, I don't remember hearing that it got them any share of the company.
That’s typically what you get in return for an investment. The only question is if it’s enough of a share to give control or at least influence.
Tencent I'm aware of, there was quite a bit of controversy about them a few years back
Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.
IIRC the reason for this is that China requires that games published there be published by entities that are at least some arbitrary percentage Chinese owned. So basically if you want access to that huge market - that loves video games - you have to cut a deal with Tencent or someone else like them.
It's not made by Bytedance. It's made by one company and published by a second, different company who is owned by Bytedance.
Why does nearly everything entertaining support oligarchs
Nevermind, rhetorical question. There's no ethical consumption yadayada
You have it backwards, oligarchs are controlling the media
Yea. Backwards samewards, omnidirectionally
Yeah, oligarchs are controlling the media they own, and consuming their media supports oligarchs.
What part of what they said was backwards?
Man, even the government are tried of capeshit.
Oh damn it affects CapCut. Glad I’m not American, I’d have hated to lose that.
Glad I moved on to davinci a couple months ago, f davinci for taking away the free user created addons tho, its only in premium now
I love DaVinci, but if I’m doing something quicker on my iPad I prefer CC