"The timing is impossible to ignore": Stop Killing Games says Ubisoft attended "invitation-only" meeting with EU Commission ahead of response to campaign sparked by The Crew shutdown, but it "was not invited"
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  • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
    382·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • imecth@fedia.io
        34·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

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

          You are confusing licensing and terms of service.

          • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
            11·
            1 day ago

            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.

          • imecth@fedia.io
            22·
            2 days 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.