EU trade body Video Games Europe - which represents the likes of Ubisoft, Take-Two, Warner Bros., Riot Games, Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, and Nintendo - insisting the initiative's proposals would make games "prohibitively expensive to create".
OK. Then don't make games that way. If the numbers don't make sense, don't make the game.
Offline games out number online games by the thousands. Unreal Tournament (1999) has remained playable with self hosted or community hosted servers since launch.