Tiemo Wölken in the EU Parliament Plenary Session on Stop Killing Games

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, so the disabling of products which is intervenes come for televisions, computers, the right to repair is also being done away with.

[00:00:16]However, this practice has been spreading to digital media in recent years. Publishers of video games are able to decide at any moment to disable access to a game which has been purchased by consumer despite the passion, time, and creativity which has been invested in those games and the fact that communities built up around them. Unfortunately, this disabling is particularly widespread if a successor title is about to replace it.

[00:00:43]So, is this practice legal? For the time being, yes, but it's completely unfair.

[00:00:48]This is why 1.3 million citizens have quite rightly called on us to act.

[00:00:52]Commissioner, I must say I'm rather disappointed by what you had to say. You say that you see the problem, but we're still lacking any suggestions as to practical action. The problem is that we seem to be seeing video games as digital service rather than a digital product that people are passionate about.

[00:01:09]So, we have to say to those passionate people, we're in going to ensure that you entitled to play this game as long as you like. You paid for it after all.