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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zaghadka Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Video games Europe - Seriously? Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:14:19 -0500 Organization: E. Nygma & Sons, LLC Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <104fsu0$2q0d1$2@dont-email.me> Reply-To: zaghadka@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:14:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a5886da1482011aa0ffbd89cf0b7588d"; logging-data="273502"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/HagesLjhVjU4q5BlBKouKZkj9B+kUfI4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:pAq7lEYkPyVXLk/BBtxZleb5oK0= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 On Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:43:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >>So we have Epic, EA, Activision, Mircrosoft to name but a few. Yeh right >>because those companies are really champions of consumers and this isn't >>just a lobbying group for some of the big players hoping that the EU >>won't get involved. Well, potentially it's a shot across the bow at Ubi for killing GRID, and the first draft title was "Stop being dicks" directly aimed at the Guillemots. Like that would change anything. It's been revealed that the entire company was being run by unrestrained BDE. But Ubi is a member, so the point may have already been made. There's definitely some kind of carrot in there for them to have joined the coalition. -- Zag What's the point of growing up if you can't be childish sometimes? ...Terrance Dicks, BBC