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US Bill that Could’ve Required Paid Games to Have Offline Modes Post-Server Shutdowns Fails to Pass a Vote in the Senate

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At the beginning of June, a bill proposed in the California State Assembly in the United States seemed poised to make massive waves in the video game industry. The bill would’ve required game developers to have offline modes for their games, so that players weren’t losing something they paid for when servers got shut down. The Protect Our Games Act passed its vote at the congress level, but unfortunately, as spotted by VGC, it did not make it further. After passing its initial vote, it was tossed up to the Senate, which is as far as it got. The bill […]

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