New California law inspired by Ubisoft and Sony requires retailers to warn consumers that the digital games they buy can be taken away at any time.

[Purgatory]

New California law inspired by Ubisoft and Sony requires retailers to warn consumers that the digital games they buy can be taken away at any time

It won't stop your games from being taken away, but at least you won't be able to say you weren't warned.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[arknor]

needs someone big like the EU to do it for it to matter

 

[Drollic]

There are that many versions of assassins creed and far cry, the chances of them removing the correct one would be pretty slim.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

No one cares.

"BUT MY OUTRAGE AND MY BEL-"

NO. ONE. CARES.

 

[Rroff]

I just don't buy games any more from publishers/developers who simply sunset games with no ability to play them again.

To be fair I don't buy many games any more anyhow due to how poor so many are and/or poor developer attitudes.

 

[theone8181]

I feel if a game is taken away, the buyer should get full RRP cost back. It's only fair.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Seems like another nail in the coffin for big title publishers

 

[willhub]

it's like owning a house but with a house at least you'd be dead before loosing it.

 

[d_brennen]

I feel that if a publisher wants to take away a game, they should be forced to open source it, or the server side, and at very least not prevent single player.
Games that are tied to an online only service get cracked all the time by amateurs, it would not be onerous.

It may feel like small fry but imagine if your toaster stopped working because the manufacture decided they aren't making money from them any more. Nowhere else would this be allowed