Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice

Wtf

"Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable. In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create."

What the f kind of statement is that? Software in this way is provided with a licensen, and the very first thing it will say is 'provided on an "as is" basis and no libility is taken regarding its function or purpose' If a private server runs a gitlab instance and someone has the brilliant idea to upload Something illegal on it; gitlab is not liable because that would be insane.

The entire statement reeks of copy paste slob and minor legal jargon but is full of holes.

'Not financially viable' is the only truth here, if we asse there is work required to make.it available. You already MADE the software, which is most of the work. Just let us revere engineer it