"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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  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    6 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·
      5 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·
        5 days ago

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

        You are confusing licensing and terms of service.

        • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
          12·
          4 days 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.

            • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
              11·
              4 days ago

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

              • atro_city@fedia.io
                21·
                3 days 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 @[email protected] and @[email protected] are describing how things are currently working out in reality despite the laws, @[email protected] 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.

        • imecth@fedia.io
          22·
          5 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.