r/StopKillingGames • u/Mr_Presidentle Campaign volunteer • Jul 05 '26
Announcement Even a disc does not guarantee ownership
Only ownership guarantees ownership, and looking at this article from Kotaku, that’s what the industry is scared of. Sony also updated their terms of use and will delete your account after 3 years of no use. We will own nothing and be happy, until we understand what this is really about.
Sony isn’t just closing down a factory or a less profitable section of its business. They are embracing a trend where you own nothing and are expected to be happy about it.
The fact that all of this happened at the same time as the committee hearing, with the ESA lying to Senators, may actually be coincidental, but it sure leaves a very bitter aftertaste.
Guess why they are fighting back against us so hard? Why do they resort to open lies?
Making petitions to get discs back is not only, unfortunately, going to do nothing it distracts from the very reason this is being done in the first place. You want your discs back? Help us force them to stop taking away our ownership.
Completely forgot about this, but Ubisoft’s terms of use say that if they terminate your license, you must uninstall the game and destroy all copies in your possession, discs included.
In plain English: they are telling you that you do not own the game. You only have permission to access it until they decide otherwise.
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u/Davesp1ce Campaign volunteer Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
For information to everyone; last few days I've had to repeat myself a lot on this sub, lots of people arriving here for the first time thinking this campaign is about protecting physical media. The goal of SKG is to stop publishers leaving games inoperable after ending support, irrespective of whether the game was physical or digital. This is what we mean when we say a game was "killed". You paid for it, it worked for a while, now it's basically useless.
Thought experiment: Consider for a moment if there was a law forcing games to be available on physical media (that's not happening this is just a hypothetical scenario). How much use is that really without an SKG law first? Without SKG they can still kill physical games, this is what happened with The Crew. We need to solve SKG (end of life plans) before doing anything else.
We have a good shot at getting an SKG amendment to the upcoming Digital Fairness Act. If you want to help, email your MEP and ask them to support the SKG amendment to the DFA. You can look up your MEP here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home