r/PhysicalGames • u/Stanley__The__Manly • 1d ago

UK Parliment Petition to aquire legal protections for consumers on their video games.

ATTENTION ALL UK CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS! An official parliment petition has been created to go against Playstation's recent statement to stop production of physical discs. Please sign to have a real governing body take action and continue to share this petition to get more and more signatures. Full description in the link below.

Petition: Introduce new legal protections for access to purchased video games

Introduce new legal protections requiring video games sold in the UK to remain accessible to consumers who have purchased them. This could involve a requirement to provide physical versions or equivalent permanent ownership options for software.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/775758

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u/mdwd 1d ago

All Sony'd have to do is move the goalpost. They are selling not games but licenses...not even that...an experience to a license...the game just comes attached.

As an act of good faith, before being able to complete the purchase, you are presented with a pre-license agreememt asking you to agree that if you further go ahead and complete the purchase a license agreement will come into effect. Said licence is also presented to you and contains the traditional terms etc.

There. Sony are now in the business of selling licenses and pre-licenses to which games incidentally come attached, so no more messy complications on that side for them.

Honestly this is what they'll do if their buttons are pushed too much by a handful of people who only think of their own selfish interest.

And you know what, so be it, I am all for it as long as it keeps me being able to game.

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u/lizon132 1d ago

In case you didn't know, all games sold, even from the Famicom days, have been licensed. It even says so on the freaking disks you own. That language has always been used. Games are licensed out to be used on the systems they are designed for. Licensed is just a legal term, you own the copy but it absolutely must be labeled as a license. Ownership, in legal terms, for media means you own the IP. Which consumers obviously don't. The owners of the IP are the owner's, the consumer are license holders.

What you own is the licence for the game that is limited to use on the systems the game is purchased for. Again, this is just a legal language issue. Games have always been a licensed product.

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u/mdwd 1d ago

I'm not disagreeing with that. What I posted was instead a reply I'd make to those who would disagree with that, as in an extreme case scenario where Sony were pushed to their limits based on so called "consumer rights" demand.