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Kamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 months ago by RidgeRoad@midwest.social to c/righttorepair@midwest.social

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[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, Entertainment Software Association representing all three.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow. I didn't even know they had an association along with a bunch of other anti-consumer game publishers.

Surprisingly, yet also unsurprisingly, Epic Games is included in that list, too.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't hear about Epic without remembering that hideous ad they ran about how Apple giving them most of the Fortnite money instead of all of the Fortnite money was basically 1984, at the height of the BLM movement no less. Epic can go fuck itself.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Whaaaa. The same company that pays for publishing exclusivity contracts while claiming a competing game storefront is being anticompetitive by abusing their position to... *checks notes* charge the same 30% fee as Microsoft and Sony, who also provide a digital download CDN, social platform, and game services? I'm shocked! /s

Not to say that the 30% fee is fair to small devs, but really... hypocrisy isn't a good look.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You fight battles you can win.