If the net neutrality repeal vote goes through

What is the fate of PoE? Sub fees?

Edit: thanks for the information regarding this, great to know Poe will be largely unaffected by this

Edit2: Well, the FCC vote went through, but there are still more votes to be done.

It will be just like playing in 2015. Or 2014. Or any year before NN was implemented.

I'm with you on general concerns for the future of the Internet, but damn people are being way too apocalyptic about this. Life in PoE will carry on as normal, I'm sure. It's not like alphabet soup bureaucracies have ever truly had the right incentives to serve us consumers anyway, even when NN was implemented a couple years ago.

Americans will have to add the "Include Advanced Gaming Services" to their internet package, and then pay extra for the privilege, the rest of us continues as normal...

Has nothing to do with providers like GGG... it has to do with your ISP. Will they charge more to play games like this? Probably not. They're going after video services like Netflix, YouTube or whatever porn you watch. These services cost providers a disproportionate amount and the ISPs want to be able to charge more to access that kind of site.

Under NN, they're prohibited from treating one website/service differently than another.

It doesn't mean that everything is going to become subscription.

It means that your ISP is going to decide what you can and can't do on the internet. That's bad.

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They're going after video services like Netflix, YouTube or whatever porn you watch. These services cost providers a disproportionate amount and the ISPs want to be able to charge more to access that kind of site.

They will be going for these services in both ends, as in they will go to Netflix and say "pay up to get good bandwidth on our network", and then go to the users and say "pay up to get Netflix with good bandwidth from our network"

If they can then split up the internet service like a cable service (as in package "deals") then they will do that too.

As far as I understand it, this will only affect Americans, but it will be interesting to see if it "bleeds" to other places as well. (if Netflix has to pay more, then that will probably be reflected in prices for example in Europe too)

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Has nothing to do with providers like GGG... it has to do with your ISP. Will they charge more to play games like this? Probably not. They're going after video services like Netflix, YouTube or whatever porn you watch. These services cost providers a disproportionate amount and the ISPs want to be able to charge more to access that kind of site.

Under NN, they're prohibited from treating one website/service differently than another.

It doesn't mean that everything is going to become subscription.

It means that your ISP is going to decide what you can and can't do on the internet. That's bad.

No. It doesn't. It means we go right back to how things were prior to December 2015. When none of what you just described was happening. Stop buying into blatant propaganda.

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pannra wrote:

It will be just like playing in 2015. Or 2014. Or any year before NN was implemented.

This.

For a group of people who play a game that is highly based around supply and demand, I'm surprised more PoE players aren't cognizant of the necessity of the price mechanism to operate in the telecommunications industry to allocate resources properly, just like other industries.

In other words, if you demand more of something, or in this case if you are the one consuming more bandwidth, the price should be higher to reflect that. When prices rise, that is a signal to other entrepreneurs to enter the market and improve things.

The questions people should be asking are:

1. Why do governments make it so hard for new ISPs to enter the market?
2. Should we allow a relatively unaccountable body of bureaucrats such as the FCC to have control over the Internet at all?

How did we get to this point when there is a such a unified voice of protest.