If Ubisoft is going to successfully lobby the EU Commission into not putting stronger consumer protections regarding video games into law, then they can live without seeing any of my business again. All future Ubisoft games are on my blacklist as a result of this decision by the EU. I will never be buying or getting another Ubisoft game again in my life, secondhand or whatever. I refuse to support their practices. The last Ubisoft games I got were Immortals Fenyx Rising when that was being given away on the Ubisoft Launcher, Assassin's Creed Odyssey (also Ubisoft Launcher) after the Project Stream playtest, which evolved into the short-lived Stadia service, and UNO on Steam. Those will be the very last games I will be buying or getting from this joke of a French game publisher. They are the ones who started this whole mess when they killed The Crew, and now, they are the ones who successfully lobbied the Commission into not putting and enshrining these "video game end of life" plans into law in the EU. I will never be giving Ubisoft a single penny ever again. If they want us to get comfortable with not owning our games, then they can get comfortable with me not buying their games. It's not over, sure; but in the case of Ubisoft, it sure is. They have permanently lost me as a customer. I used to be blinded by Ubisoft, supporting them making mid-tier ass games and having some of the most anti-consumer Terms of Service in the entire gaming industry. I can see clearly now, and Ubisoft is a company that I no longer want anything to do with or support in any way, shape, or form. Because of this ruling, I won't be buying any more Ubisoft games through any means. They made their bed, now they can lie in it.
Go and pound sand, Ubisoft. Kick freaking rocks.
The European Commission doesn’t decide if it gets made law. The parliament does. And they already plan on making it law.