That's because it is corp. Videogames Europe is the lobbing organisation of the Euopean gaming indusry
Vittelius
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It's also a strawman argument. Because yes, developers have less to no control over the operation of private servers. Yes, that means they can't moderate those servers.
But
This initiative only covers games, not supported anymore by the devs anyway. Meaning legally speaking everything happening to private servers would be literally not their concern anymore. And new legislation, should it come to that, would spell that out.
why this does not happen at the time of signing is beyond me but whatever
Data protection. The EU doesn't do the validation, they don't even have the data necessary for it. That job falls to the national governments. But why share the data if the initiative wasn't successful in the first place.
Nah, the API is still returning data, the database seems to not be affected. It's just to many people trying to access the site simultaneously, accidentally DDOSing the server
Third party tracker: https://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/
It won't give you any information right now as the API is down as well but that's the pace to check once the EU gets their servers up and running again
Thx for the info. I've changed it to a different host
Turns out people need villains with faces. And the gaming industry wasn't personable enough to truly hate.
Stop playing games?
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That part of the argument is slightly different. If I understand the press statement correctly, what they are saying is: "Some servers can't, on a technical level, be hosted by the community". And that's not a straw man (arguing against something never asked for), that's just a lie. We have access to all the same stuff as the industry (AWS etc). Hosting these kinds of servers might be very expensive, but the initiative only asks for a way to keep games alive not for a cheap way (though I would prefer a cheap way of course)