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That makes it worse! If you want to make a law like that palatable for investment, there needs to be crystal clear language on how long the servers need to be accessible. If you want to invest a bunch of money into a game, you're going to want to avoid this kind of exposure.The law doesn't deal in absolutes and this is not a new concept, many older games function in this exact same way.
Once the tools stop working due to problems with modern operating systems and such? The community steps in and fixes it, no one ever demanded that companies fix 20 year old games that don't work on Windows 11 anymore. Hell many of those companies already ceased to exist altogether.
You're creating absurd scenarios when all this initiative is trying to do is to start a conversation that would help curtailing planned obsolescence in videogames.
When you talk about older games, that's almost apples and oranges to what we expect out of a modern online game. A quake server is a far cry from what a GaaS has to do to keep the lights on. Destiny would not get made in this climate. Helldiver 2 would not get made in this climate. Plenty more in the same boat. Very different than leaving some server code so people can play Half Life 2 deathmatch at a LAN party.