Official response from EU Commission after attending invite only party hosted by lobbyists, attended by Ubisoft and other corpos

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/document/download/75d642bc-6ff5-4713-b1cf-14f4aaf15869_en?filename=C_2026_4110_EN.pdf

Open letter from SKG addressing EU Commision (aka industry/lobbyist talking points)

https://x.com/StopKilingGames/status/2062131784926519424

Video from YongYea if you'd like to listen to the situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15hYar2g3T8

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[–] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Or "Stop Renting Games" since we only get a digital license on most platforms that can be revoked.

EDIT: I need to watch the (looong) video linked below by MagnificentSteiner as this may be wrong.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    This is not true. Don't spread this false "you don't own your games" narrative.

    You buy a perpetual license for a copy of the game. It's called a license because you are not buying the actual game but a copy. It's exactly the same way other software works as well as music and other media.

    The whole point of SKG is that we do own our games but publishers are trying to act otherwise.

    Here, Ross who started SKG explains it better.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Nobody's giving you a perpetual license to anything, even GOG, any license you're "buying" can be revoked at any time for whatever reason they want.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    That's just not true. Inform yourself to save future embarrassment.

    You are confusing licensing and terms of service.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    Do you really own your game if it can be unilaterally taken away from you ? Copyright law is fucked and the software industry is happy with the status quo - no owning a license that's behind dozens of pages of TOS is not owning a game.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    This is very true. If Amazon shuts down tomorrow, you've forever lost that license to what ever software you rented.

    You have no way of ever getting that license back, legally. You will have to rent said software somewhere else, even though the nomenclature on the website and everywhere else said "You bought this"

    Which is far more patently false than what you're saying.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's not. You're just talking absolute nonsense and I'll not spend anymore time talking to you ignorant naysayers.

    Here, educate yourself... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    So do tell me, Amazon folds tomorrow, how do you regain access to the video game or software you bought? It has drm btw

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I think you're both on the same side and find that there aren't enough protections for consumers and that the existing ones are being ignored. You @Zoot@reddthat.com and @imecth@fedia.io are describing how things are currently working out in reality despite the laws, @MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip is describing how things are legally despite their disregard.

    We can probably all agree that we need to enforce the existing laws and expand them.

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