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'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games

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Nice. The movie industry must be shitting themselves if this goes through. They are next.
- 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.
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.
  
  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.
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.

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