Post #3390337

2026-06-17 00:09 UTC

Under SKG, the new title would effectively be forced to compete with the old despite the fact that the IP holder doesn't want that. chad_yes.jpg Publishers shouldn't be able to erase existing games consumers have purchased so that new games don't have to compete with them. That's the equivalent of Disney confiscating all DVDs of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and destroying them so that the new MCU movies don't have to compete. If their new products aren't good enough to compete with the old, tough shit. Not an excuse to confiscate and destroy what consumers already paid for.

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@Mordikan@kbin.earth 2026-06-17 01:55

So, that's the thing: what did you pay for? I'm speaking specifically for SWTOR as that's a good case to work from. When you bought it, did you buy the servers and infrastructure behind it or did you buy just access to that service or did you buy a standalone product? They aren't taking your discs. You bought that, right? They are turning off a computer they have on their end. That's their property, right? If they don't have a right to take your property, do you have a right to take theirs? Then you get into private servers. Do you have the right to their software that they didn't sell to you? That's the funny thing about this. If you have the right to take something from them you didn't pay for, do they get the right to take something from you that you did pay for.

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