Christmas came 345 days early for Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and their US internet service provider bretheren. Today a United States Federal Appeals court ruled that the FCC does not have the right to regulate the way in which ISPs provide access to the internet. I'll spare you the complex details, but the cliffnotes are that it's not completely legal for service providers to throttle or even block access to parts of the internet they don't want you to use. For example, Comcast could disable Netflix access so that you are forced to use their TV and streaming services.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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Basically it means that Comcast and Verizon can now charge you extra for using streaming services or for access to certain feature like gaming access, NetFlix and can now block you from sites they don't want you to visit.
Net Neutrality prevented them from charging you for using your service to go to sites like Netflix. Now, if you wont pay for their services, you will have to pay extra for streaming. If you are a gamer, you can now be charged extra for accessing Xbox Live or PSN.
There goes the internet. Nice knowing you guys...even you fanboy a-holes.
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People still think bandwidth caps is going to stop Steam and Sony from moving forward with their digital plans?
These cable companies aren't stupid and they know people will pay to play. I wouldn't be surprised if these companies are working hand in hand.
All of you people that want online games like Destiny,The crew,the Division and other that are going to appear with the same need features (Online connection required)be ready to start paying more to your Isp;ISp providers want there cut,how can blame then!Blame Ubisoft,EA and other greedy companys that want people to pay to play online games that could be done to play offline.