LETS KEEP OUR GAMES

[u/FlatwormNational569]

Gamers deserve meaningful ownership rights, the ability to transfer or resell games, where legally permitted, and protections against games becoming completely unplayable when online services shut down.

This isn’t just about today’s games. It’s about preserving gaming history for future generations.

The proposed bill directs the Federal Trade Commission to establish strict regulations ensuring that when consumers purchase a video game, they receive true ownership rather than a temporary rental disguised as a sale.

In addition to securing full ownership, transfer rights, and resale capabilities for players, the legislation mandates that games with online functionality must provide an offline mode before supporting servers are deactivated. This requirement aims to prevent instances where popular titles become completely unplayable after publishers end live server support.

If enacted into law, the bill would mark a major victory for consumer protection advocates and set a sweeping precedent across the broader digital economy, fundamentally reshaping how digital software and entertainment media are sold nationwide.

source: Office of Representative Ritchie Torres. (2026). Rep. Torres Announces Power To The Players Act, Legislation to Ensure Gamers Own Their Games.

📢 Contact your members of Congress and ask them to support the legislation.

Find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Find your senators: https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Stop treating purchases like rentals. Protect game ownership.

#PowerToThePlayers #StopKillingGames #GamePreservation #RightToOwn #GamingCommunity

[u/ELMOKICKA55]

I think its funny that the US bill requires private servers to be available, and meanwhile the EU bill bans private servers. Gonna make it difficult to release in both regions for sure

[u/Extension-Rabbit3654]

Good luck, still think we're a generation away from any common sense tech regulation

The corpses in office now need to die off already

[u/Glittering-Eye3299 → u/Extension-Rabbit3654]

Metal. In fact it sounds like Warhammer 40k.

[u/Extension-Rabbit3654 → u/Glittering-Eye3299]

Dont think we're far off a Warhammer dystopian future

[u/Sandbox_Hero]

Not happening in a republican-controlled house. So if you want this go out there and vote blue.

[u/Juunlar → u/Sandbox_Hero]

Voting day is November 3rd, and most jurisdictions allow for early voting!

Go go go

[u/xLordPhantom]

Not going to happen. It restricts the rights of copyright and IP holders, small and large alike.

You people are entitled as fuck, and ignorant as hell.