Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34368958-20190510023202/@comment-34050211-20190605154636

Jdelprat wrote: Kdawgmaster wrote: Jdelprat wrote: The fact that it's just the USA doesn't really matter imo, yeah it would be a kick on the cookies, but USA players could still use a VPN to play the same way the people in Belgium do. Remember that the game is widely played and avaible in China, Europe, South America and Canada, for them to close the game it should have to be a UN concern. Ofc the US fanbase has all my support against this law, and I think that this should be threated by Google, they could use the same system used on PSN, to acces p2p content, you need to be over a certain age and have your parents control it and just to make sure you are an adult, you are forced to give your id, some type of association with the governments so that they make sure to control those things. The US matters massively as they are generally the country with the hardest impact on business based choices and regulations. If the bill passes in the states you can be sure that it will pass in other nations to because the US is generally far more lax on things like this. This is why the ESRB will fight tooth and nail on the states imposing these and not a country like Belgium. And? Dokkan knows about VPNs that's why they acknowledge that Belgium actually hit top-grossing in celebrations, they know that as long as the game is avaiable in one of the places i mentioned the game will not die and they will still take profit. And even then, I don't remember seeing the US in top-grossing for Dokkan (maybe I'm wrong), which means that they are winning more than enough money with the rest of the world so Dokkan will not shut down. I'm sure that many, many, MANY games will die, but not Dokkan. You try to make it sound like VPN's are a sure fire way to get around these things and their not. Governments can easily put into law that verifications and everything are required and not only that they could EASILY regulate the store fronts of google and others to ensure the use of VPN's have little to no impact on how these things are enforced. The other thing to take into consideration is that when you have larger nations moving in on this the impact is felt throughout all of them even the smaller countries. If this passes in the states as i've mentioned in my edit Canada and UK is likely to follow suit. If UK follows them that means theres a high probablility that the EU will follow after that, even though the UK doesnt have the standing they use to when considering the EU.

Also take into consideration that just like how the UK enacted its privacy act the US could do the exact same effectively putting this on the Global market. This means that even if a VPN is used they would have to make sure that they follow US regulations and if they are ever found out selling these to minors in the states the fines are likely to be huge.