Comment by maccard
1 day ago
I don't think this comment is made in good faith.
> Or is there some other emergent effect you're concerned about that you expect me to be able to infer?
Removing the unneeded snark, yes. A well intended, but poorly implemented law will not have the desired effect. If the law states that F2P games are exempt, for example (as Stop Killing Games has suggested), you'll find a massive swing towards free games with $60/80/100 in-game purchases to access the actual content.
I don't think your comment was in good faith either, hence the snark in my reply. When someone says "this is bad and I think it shouldn't be allowed", responding "solving the problem in a poor way is bad" isn't a meaningful comment. You went out of your way to describe what I was saying as bad without explaining what you thought was bad about it while maintaining an air of intellectual superiority. If you're surprised that leads people to respond negatively, I'm not sure what to tell you.