Reply to: The UK is the 5th largest video game market in the world in terms of consumer revenue

[original PM]

Sorry mate, I'm stuck on level 51 of "living in the real world!".

Jeez dude.

Games haven't had 'levels' since R-Type

[WTFH]

What came first, the scaremongering or the counter-scaremongering?

Well, there’s been nothing from the Brexit side that has been about the future, just a blame culture. Is it scaremongering to point that out. Leave won, but won’t accept responsibility for coming up with plans.

[LondonManc]

Most of it is not "End of the world crap" but "we've been waiting for over two years and no one has bothered to say how it's going to work and any time we dare ask, we're told it's scaremongering, etc"

What came first, the scaremongering or the counter-scaremongering?

[shaunbhoy]

51? - i'm still on level 42 and i just can't get the hang of this 'slap bass' stuff

Sounds like you are in Hot Water...............

[BR14]

Sorry mate, I'm stuck on level 51 of "living in the real world!".

51? - i'm still on level 42 and i just can't get the hang of this 'slap bass' stuff

[AtW]

Sorry mate, I'm stuck on level 51 of "living in the real world!".

Area 51, eh?

[Zigenare]

Anyone got Red Dead 2 yet?

It's pretty darned good.

Ya Varmint

Sorry mate, I'm stuck on level 51 of "living in the real world!".

[original PM]

Anyone got Red Dead 2 yet?

It's pretty darned good.

Ya Varmint

[WTFH]

That's where the dole money is all spent, presumably.

So it must be foreigners, cause they are the only ones who get benefits in this country these days.

...bloody immigrants coming over here playing our computer games, taking away our high scores, etc

[NotAllThere]

The UK is the 5th largest video game market in the world in terms of consumer revenue

That's where the dole money is all spent, presumably.

[WTFH]

However will a non-EU company trade with another non-EU company or an EU company trade with a non-EU company? It's like it just doesn't happen already. Can't beat all this end of the world crap.

Most of it is not "End of the world crap" but "we've been waiting for over two years and no one has bothered to say how it's going to work and any time we dare ask, we're told it's scaremongering, etc"

[LondonManc]

However will a non-EU company trade with another non-EU company or an EU company trade with a non-EU company? It's like it just doesn't happen already. Can't beat all this end of the world crap.

[Mordac]

Another report:

Games4EU | Brexit Guide for Interactive Entertainment | United Kingdom

The highlights in case you can't be bothered to read it:

1) Interactive entertainment businesses will face considerable uncertainty and bureaucracy, driving up costs and impeding day-to-day business. There are particular concerns around access to personal data; changes to the UK/EU customs, VAT and intellectual property law systems; and falling out of the EU’s regulation and dispute resolution systems.

2) Products and services will be more expensive, harder to access, delayed or even partly or wholly unavailable in the UK - this includes physical products like games consoles and merchandise, online subscription services from Netflix and Spotify to video game pass services, online games and entertainment channels and ‘just in time’ delivery systems like Amazon Prime over time.

3) UK-based businesses will be compelled to relocate to EU in whole/part over time in order to comply with rules for EU trade access and to keep rights and benefits unavailable to UK-based businesses post-Brexit.

4) Loss of access to EU talent and friction on UK/EU travel will discourage high-skilled creative/technical staff from working here, causing overtime talent scarcity and a brain drain.

5) Loss of consumer rights such as refund/return rights, fair labelling and EU mobile data roaming.

6) Cultural diminishment: interactive entertainment is an important part of the UK’s soft cultural power and many people have told us about Brexit having a negative impact on the industry’s values of community.

Misc scaremongering. Next...

[darmstadt]

And a vested interest in making out Brexit is bad and the EU is good.

You are Michael Gove and I claim my 5 sovereigns

[original PM]

Not as much bollocks as the above though. I didn't say it, the people who did say it have slightly more knowledge and experience than a PFY:



Games4EU | Advisory Board | United Kingdom

And a vested interest in making out Brexit is bad and the EU is good.