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UserBenchmark is a joke. They aren't just biased in a normal way, but rather they have an obsession on AMD and throw lots of weird insults like this.
EU is way too large of a market to "lock out." Didn't happen with Apple, for example.
For subscription hell, we're deeper into it than is healthy, but I don't expect it to take over because of this. Steam, which is the biggest, most profitable platform out there doesn't even offer a subscription and shouldn't be hurt by this. For competitors, trying to suddenly force everyone into a subscription would lose a lot of business.
Edit: Anyway, doing nothing about it is a guaranteed bad outcome.
It's not supposed to be a finished law at this point. The main take from the initiative is that digital games have a massive issue with anti-consumer practices, and that consumers demand something to be done about it.
How would this exactly backfire in your view?
Most of HMD's efforts, like that "repairable" phone are a joke. I'm not particularly impressed with this either, but it seems that the pogo pins provide standard USB, which could enable some fun hacks.
This looks more like classic spambots than AI.
Nice going. Maybe EU can beat some sense into digital "ownership".
The thought was that it'd be closer to that, than the 12 times larger suggestion.
And yeah, I was definitely only taking hosting costs into account, because every instance is maintained by volunteers. I was also only thinking about large instances that benefit from economies scale and smarter management.
I took a quick glance at that thread, will have a more thorough pass later.
I mean, I haven't seen a "Giga Train" before. Maybe it is the world's first.
Why would it be illegal, or unethical? I don't really see any reason.