List of Games Whose EULA Ask to Destroy All Your Copies of Them
With the recent (but acutally not recent AT ALL) Ubisoft EULA scandal, I wanted to make a small list of games/developer/publisher whose EULA asks you to destroy any copy of the game in your possession and unistall them from your devices.
As a reminder, EULAs are NOT legally-binding documents, and they can't be applied in place of local law. Unless what you're doing is already illegal for other reasons, they can't legally punish you in any way, but they can terminate your agreement and ban you from their service forever.
- Ubisoft
- Larian
- EDIT: While they do have that clause, they also specify that only you can end the agreement. Because you have to notify them if you want to terminate the agreement, this means that that clause will not have any effect as long as you don't terminate it!
- Square Enix/FFXIV
- Genshin Impact/COGNOSPHERE
- Just wanted to see if even mobile games have it, and it seems soo! Surely nobody is playing a gacha game here, but alas, they're still asking it.
- Death Stranding
- Bethesda/TES IV Oblivion
- Call of Duty/Activision
- Elden Ring
- Yakuza (yes, all Yakuza games)
- Persona (yes, all Persona games)
- In general, all SEGA games have this section (including Methapor: ReFantazio), and it's written exactly the same in all of their games.
- No Man's Sky
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Jedi: Survivor doesn't seem to have this clause
- Again, in general all OLD (around Fallen Order release or before) EA Games have this clause, while moder games doesn't seem to have it. Good Joob EA! (???)
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
At last, i wanted to make a shoutout to Cyberpunk 2077 EULA. It's a huge shitpost in legal form, and some sections are extremely comincal to read! It just goes to show how EULAs aren't really legal documents, but ways for developers/publishers to have more power over their product (in a good or bad way).
If any of you finds more game that have that clause, feel free to say it and i'll add it to the list (unless it's implicitaly present, Ex. any SEGA game).
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