'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games
'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games
Nicolae Ștefănuță, a Vice President of the EU Parliament, signed the Stop Killing Games petition.
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But I want to resell it to the same person for further profit 👉👈🥺 - AAA Game Publishers
Not really what this is about.
They could even still keep doing that with Remasters, Remakes, Ports on a new Console, Special Editions, whatever.
Yeah, what they really do is worse.
They just remove your ability to buy/play the original, so literally everyone loses.
I mean, SKG is about keeping the game still playable, not buyable forever.
One of the biggest controversies at 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.
But I want to resell it to the same person for further profit
One of the biggest controversies at the start of all of this was Ubisoft pulling The Crew whilst pushing people to buy The Crew 2.
I know about The Crew, but it's not like Ubisoft had a Special Edition or something lined up that replaced the original game, and you had to buy it again. There was no reselling, the sequel is a different game.
Nothing in the SKG initiative is against Sequels, Remasters, Remakes, whatever. It's not even about keeping a game in stores forever. It isn't against yearly releases of Fifa, Madden, NBA 2k, that get removed after a few years, as long as you can still play your copy of Fifa 26 in twenty years.
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.
That's the thing though, does this really happen? Usually games that get completely removed, that you can't even play anymore are multiplayer games, live service stuff, that are just so dead that nobody is even remotely interested in a remaster, so the game is just gone.