It was Nicolae Ștefănuță from the Greens–European Free Alliance which was always going to be one of the political groups more likely to support this initiative.
We need to convince MEPs in the PES and EPP to really get a directive approved.
'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games
Submitted 1 week ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to gaming@beehaw.org
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ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 week ago
themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Nice. The movie industry must be shitting themselves if this goes through. They are next.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 week ago
I don’t think this changes anything for movies unless there’s somewhere you can “buy” a copy of a movie but they don’t let you download an offline copy. If they “rent” you the movie or you “subscribe” to a streaming service, none of this applies.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I know the option for buying movies exist. You can do it on Apple Store. You can download offline, but only into their own ecosystem.
That would be a case, where you are forced to let them download.
But it’s more realistic, that they just remove that option, than letting people download it out of their shop.
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 1 week ago
But I want to resell it to the same person for further profit 👉👈🥺 - AAA Game Publishers
Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Not really what this is about.
They could even still keep doing that with Remasters, Remakes, Ports on a new Console, Special Editions, whatever.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Yeah, what they really do is worse.
They just remove your ability to buy/play the original, so literally everyone loses.
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 1 week ago
One of the biggest controversies ant the start of all of this was Ubisoft pulling The Crew whilst pushing people to buy The Crew 2. Frankly it’s amazing we haven’t seen that more often with the near identical sequels such as the Madden, FIFA, F1 etc games.
No one’s forcing you to buy a remaster… unless they are because they revoke your right to play the original so it’s your only option.
Remasters and remakes will still happen but companies won’t have as much freedom to yoink a purchased product from your pocket years down the track in the name of some profit strategy.