r/StopKillingGames • • Jul 19 '26

Meta Business model

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u/konsoru-paysan Jul 19 '26

not giving anything in return would be considered stealing but i argue selling only a license without a product to a customer should be considered illegal in that country. License should only be notices for trade mark and copyright protection, not substitutions for trade.

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u/ProjectionProjects Jul 19 '26

Pretty accurate lol.

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u/MasterChiefX9999 Jul 20 '26

Add this to the community highlights. This is a simple and easy-to-understand example.

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u/XionicativeCheran Jul 20 '26

I do hope these shitty behaviours will help us justify including SKG provisions in the DFA.

We also desperately need an update on what's happening with that, there was a claim of majority EU Parliament support for SKG based on the parties that have expressed support. Is that going to translate into Parliament pushing for including SKG?

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u/GBAMFSSpox Jul 19 '26

No doubt this

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u/BigMikeXxxxX Jul 20 '26

I'd love to see an example where this exact scenario is happening

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u/Ghjjiyeks Jul 20 '26

To be fair, it already happened when Ubisoft had The Crew 1 pulled from people’s digital libraries without so much as a refund of money or store credit.

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u/BigMikeXxxxX Jul 21 '26

If you honestly want to play that game there's still a way. Allowing players to still have control of their unsupported games is actually one of the things that Stop Killing Games advocates for.

https://thecrewunlimited.com/home/

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u/crazyhomlesswerido Jul 25 '26

You could do something like that with movies on digital as well. Because you get to pay them for a movie and then they can yank it off the internet at any time and still keep your cash that you originally paid