Why PlayRite.eu is becoming GamerRights.eu

This site used to be called PlayRite.eu. It is now GamerRights.eu. The mission, the team and the content do not change: only the name gets clearer.

Why the change

"PlayRite" was meant as a pun ("play" and "right", the right to play), but in practice almost nobody understood it at a glance. The name read just as easily as "playwright" or as a simple misspelling. It took an explanation, and a letter-by-letter acrostic in the site's footer, for the meaning to appear: Players Advocating for Your Rights in Interactive Technology Entertainment. That is precisely the problem: a name that needs to be decoded is not doing its job.

GamerRights.eu says directly what it is: a site that defends players' rights. No pun to explain, no acrostic to decode.

What does not change

• The mission: analysing laws, breaking down EULAs and terms of service, and defending players' rights as video games go fully digital.
• The content: every existing article stays online, at the same addresses.
• The old domain: playrite.eu keeps working and automatically redirects to gamerrights.eu. Your links and bookmarks are not broken.

The new tagline: Play. Own. Preserve. Respect.

These four words sum up what the site fights for, and map onto our article categories:

• Play: the right to keep playing a game after its commercial support ends.
• Own: what "owning" a game actually means when you buy a licence, not an object.
• Preserve: preserving video game heritage, legal deposit and conservation.
• Respect: EULAs and terms of service that respect consumer law, not the other way around.

Everything else stays the same. We will keep breaking down laws, EULAs and terms of service, with the same legal rigour as before.