• r00ty@kbin.life
    43·
    2 days ago

    They didn’t close it. They provided an answer early. That as they see it, existing trade and consumer law should cover games and they don’t plan on carving out extra legislation for it but they will “keep an eye on it”.

    Now it is over 100k, it doesn’t actually mean anything more than they “might” debate it in parliament.

    Now, don’t get me wrong. I signed the petition, and I think they SHOULD look into it. But, my old cynical bones tell me that even if they do have a debate in parliament. It will be at a time when there will be 5 MPs in there, who will have nothing to say on the matter and it will be swept under the rug with a further canned statement drawn up by some civil servant in whitehall talking about consumer law just like the statement before.

    Most western governments are on the side of industry, and that includes game developers. I cannot imagine they care about this subject and will do the bare minimum lip service to move past it.

    I hope I’m wrong.

    I do have a bit more hope for the European parliament. Just a little. They do seem to be a bit more pro-consumer. That is the one that matters most IMO.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      I don’t think you’re wrong, and I think the EU petition will go the same way, but it’s still worth signing regardless.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      If the EU petition makes it, then it will provide the UK petition support too as part of whatever debate goes on about it.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        The UK petition ends before the EU petition so my guess is that they’ll give us some canned response before the end of the month. In their heads that will end the discussion.