You must immediately uninstall the Product and destroy all copies of the Product in Your possession.
LOL go fuck yourself
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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[EU/UK] Stop Killing Games:
The consumer movement to stop game publishers from destroying older games with kill switches.
The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.
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Give me a FULL refund, accounting for inflation, and a 2% interest compounded monthly and you got a deal.
For anyone who is somehow confused as to why any gaming company would ever even attempt something like this, why they really love the idea of being able to evaporate something they've sold you...
Just as used cars compete with new cars... so do old games compete with new games.
Games just have the fun property of being primarily digital, as opposed to a physical thing.
Massive digital goods companies will thus always fight to make your digital property rights as insubstantial as possible, and will go out of their way to either destroy or totally control all means to play older games.
Their worst nightmare is a world where you can just buy or otherwise acquire an older, better game, and they can't convince anyone to buy their new flashy, buggy, hollow bs.
They will pull out every rhetorical and legal strategy they possibly can, gaslight in everyway they can, to prevent that reality.
The corporation cares only for the profit of its shareholders, literally, legally.
Everything else is simply a tactic for achieving that.
Really, keeping and loving your old favorites is stealing from every single company selling new games, if you look at it in terms of lost sales.
"Ownership is theft!" -ubisoft
Sure. And i will never spend money on products that are made by Ubisoft.
This is the way.
Full disclosure: didn't read the full article. But im 0% surprised they're floundering, and desperately trying to squeeze every penny they can out of players.
Yet another example of why im avoiding AAA studios where I can
Its uh... shockingly brazen:
You and UBISOFT (or its licensors) may terminate this EULA, at any time, for any reason.
This EULA will terminate automatically if You fail to comply with any of the terms and conditions of this EULA.
Upon termination for any reason, You must immediately uninstall the Product and destroy all copies of the Product in Your possession.
Ubisoft Eula
Yeah, but if they terminate the EULA, doesn't that mean we're no longer bound by it and don't have to uninstall the game?
EULAs, like any contract... have to actually be reasonable legal contracts.
This is the literal foundational mechanism of capitalism... the government enforces and adjuticates and regulates contracts.
You can't just have a person sign a contract with fucking ludicrous nonsense like this in it and not expect a judge in any kind of halfway functioning society to not laugh it out of court.
Courts, at least around here, are real big on choking down corpo dick.
I'm not optimistic about their behavior, no matter what they should do.
Safest course is to just steal everything, since it's no less stealing than giving them your money in the long run, but you get to have a game and play itvand it even works offline.
Yeah, this is a bridge too far. If they try to enforce this, shit is going to hit the fan for them.
That said, I have no intention of giving them money in the first place. The sheer hubris of this policy...
Yet, let's watch it happen.
I'm going to make more backup copies of Prince of Persia out of spite.
You wouldn't dare
It's never enough with these publishers.
If only Ubisoft would croak as fast as half of YouTube is telling me for years by now.
Maybe Microsoft will buy them.
Well that'd guarantee their day with the chopping block.
Can Ubisoft just file chapter 11 already so Fromsoft can pickup assassin's creed for cheap?
I didnt even know i wanted that until just now.