Not in Europe, so I can’t help you there.
But I’d like to add, it’s not JUST about disabling games.
Bungie released Destiny 2 in 2017, in 2020 they started “vaulting” content, locking it away from people who had paid for it.
This included ALL of the story missions, essentially rendering the game plot-less.
Half of the original planet locations in the base $60 game, and the entirety of the first two paid expansions.
It’s literally impossible to play the game as launched even though, technically, it was never disabled and is still online.
The content has never been restored and cannot be accessed, even for a court case, Bungie had to rely on YouTube recordings of the removed content:
pcgamer.com/…/bungies-lawyers-have-to-use-fan-vid…
HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Is there any explanation even a theory of why this was done?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
There was a bullshit explanation, that as time went on proved to be a lie, yeah.
HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Sounds about right for game companies these days.