Quoting: einherjarBut all this does not happen to a digital copy of a game. The pre users were smoking or played it a lot, or they had dirty fingers while playing... DOESN'T MATTER. The used copy is always as good as an unused one.

I'm not sure why you all get worked up about such minor details. It's pretty obvious that digital and physical products are not the same.

The issue at hand is that when those digital markets formed they where until now pretty unregulated and extremely one sided when it comes to consumer rights. It was basically always "If you want that game you have to agree to our completely stupid EULA or GTFO". This is now changing. They didn't had refunds either until they got forced to do them.

It is an illusion that those markets will regulate themselves. They themselves are pushing for laws as much as they can to cement their full control, like for example the law that prevents you from tampering with DRM even if they shutdown the online service and the product you purchased becomes useless.

It is about time that the consumer side gets represented and we get back to a reasonable fair market that isn't so one sided when it comes to ownership and what you can do with your own stuff you actually payed for. There has to be done a lot more and hopefully the right to do the same thing with an account will hopefully be next.

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Quoting: SalvatosIf this became law, I can only imagine the entire industry shifting to a Stadia-like approach where the distributors make it very clear that you’re only renting access to a stream that you can influence to some extent (via controller input during gameplay and via payment for specific content [games] being streamed to you), not any sort of tangible product. As others have said, that sounds like the ultimate DRM.

I mean they already try the streaming thing right now to take away control from the consumer even more. They don't need that law to get that motivation. I don't think streaming will work for most games though. I think this is a casual market thing.

This industry uses laws tho restrict stuff and take rights away from the customers for years. It is a bit sad to see so much concern for them when there is finally a push in the other direction that only gives us some basic rights back we had before. This is hopefully only the start.

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I think the actually big thing here is the ruling that this is an actual purchase and not just a subscription. This will hopefully put an end to the steady push on taking away control from the customers.

And I completely agree with other that stated "what took you so long"?

I'm not sure what to think of the fear for indie games. In my opinion only high volume games will have an actual secondary market that may cut into their profits. The reason why there is a crisis in the indie industry is because of the extreme market over-saturation. I mean you just can't expect that everyone was waiting for generic pixel art side scroller #6254.

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Quoting: fractalDoes it carry over the gamebreaking bugs? It's not a true Daggerfall experience if you're able to play it.

Yeah, that game was pretty horrible when it came to bugs :D . But still a lot of fun. "Hold!! Hold!! Hold!!"

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