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Numerous reasons mainly pertaining to dogshit GaaS games.

>Microtransactions
Can't sell people microtransactions if they can just pop into a private server and use those items for free, and those files have to be preinstalled for other players to see them which means that everyone has them preinstalled. The only thing stopping you from using microtransaction content on any multiplayer game nowadays is the fact that the servers verify "ownership" and ban you. The group lobbying against SKG (Video Games Europe) were also the same guys who said lootboxes were "surprise mechanics" and lobbied against them being classified as gambling.

>Spyware/Anti-cheat
Plenty of competitive online games come with literal kernel-level rootkits to spy on the user and steal their data, it's literally stated in the EULA of plenty of these games that telemetry data and diagnostic data will be gathered and potentially sold to "partners" in order to keep the game running. The fear is that if users gain access to this then they could potentially land the IP owners in hot water with the authorities (and especially with the EU's GDPR laws). This is going to hurt companies like Riot and games like LoL and Valorant particularly hard.

>Planned Obsolescence
Very reminiscent of Right to Repair. Games are sold with planned obsolescence so they can shift users on to newer titles, like Overwatch 1 shutting down for the sake of forcing players to move to Overwatch 2. If the rights owners weren't at liberty to shut down the game, then their sequels will probably get less activity which means monthly active users which is terrible for shareholders who need to see those stats.

>Control
The group that is lobbying against SKG admitted this. Companies want to control free speech on their platforms and they can't do that with private servers.

Plenty of these things are why games are so dogshit nowadays, so SKG kills multiple shitbirds with one stone. Anyone against SKG is a jeet or jew.