Apple is freaking out after their payments became legally optional in Europe and North America. They are losing billions every month on third party services with lower fees.

To counter that they are now showing this glorious WARNING to scare off the casual audience from using apps who implemented external payment systems.

#Apple@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

Hype-as-a-Service (HaaS) Builder AI faked their sale figures by transferring money between related companies.

#AI@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

Dark and Darker was killed again by Nexon. The company fought IRONMACE for some time and apparently won.

#Legal@GameDEV
#EpicStore@GameDEV

You still have a chance to participate in Europe and the UK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo
#Legal@GameDEV
#Europe@GameDEV

Vice President of the European Parliament Nicolae Ștefănuță has signed the petition for Stop Killing Games

“I stand with the people who started this citizen initiative. I signed and will continue to help them. A game, once sold, belongs to the customer, not the company.”

#Europe@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

OOF is back to Roblox, so watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaI
#SoundDesign@GameDEV
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Here's the official statement

#ItchIO@GameDEV
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If you are a UK resident, you may sign the petition to take down "Safety act" that in its current form will cut the country from tens of thousands of websites:

• Any interactive website has to make ID system to verify age (either a huge upfront investment to make one or ~$1.5 per visitor from commercial solutions).
• The legal relief budget government expects is way over the whole monthly budget for the majority of websites.
• There are huge fines and other legal actions against website owners.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
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Holy crap: thanks to Collective Shout, Steam lost PayPal support in many regions!

If you forgot the story: 8 Aussie and radical Catholic mums attacked Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal so they will stop selling any adult games or games they generally don't like. Under false accusations they tried to make it look like those games are illegal (but they don't). They even tried to delist Detroit Become Human only because one of them didn't like the game.

And they partially succeeded with tens of thousands of games got delisted from Steam, Itchio and GOG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZVJGtvY1js
#Steam@GameDEV
#Valve@GameDEV
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And yeah, don't forget they made this shit in The UK and now rejecting the official petition where 500 000+ people were against it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCIo1IyykLQ
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Tencent spent years, negotiating the possible Horizons Online. Sony clearly said no, but Tencent already wasted millions on the production and announced it as Light of Motiram.

Now, after several months in court, the game is officially delisted and the case is settled. But they will not tell us how exactly.

#PlayStation@GameDEV
#Tencent@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

Oh no, GOG updated their policies, we are doomed! (no, they are simply keeping us on track with ownership changes and some policies changes due to laws or structure)

#GOG@GameDEV
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