There have been many instances where players were exempted from playing their favorite online game after that game being delisted by the developers. That’s when the ‘Stop Killing Game’ campaign stepped up.
This consumer driven movement was set up to save the games from being lost forever due to their poor performance in the market, despite being owned by several owners. However, it seems not everyone is supporting this approach.
Pirate Software refrains to stand besides the ‘Stop Killing Games’ campaign
It all started in 2024 when a YouTuber named Accursed Farms aka Ross Scott started a campaign called Stop Killing Games in response to Ubisoft’s decision to take down The Crew. This was an online-only open world racing game released in 2014, which garnered fair response in its initial days, but later on faded away completely.
That is why Ubisoft shut down all of its servers in March 2024, making the game completely unplayable as there was no offline mode. This was actually a huge blow for all those who bought this game, and no one was issued any refunds. That is why Scott stepped up with this European initiative.
Stop Killing Games got huge support across the majority of the gaming community, but some still debunked this campaign. One of them is YouTuber Pirate Software aka Jason “Thor” Hall. As of now, there are over 800k signatures to this petition and this European Citizens’ Initiative is just 20% away from reaching its goal.
But Pirate Software has straightway refused to sign this petition. According to him, this campaign itself isn’t specific and even claimed that “It would impact every live service game that exists.” Pirate Software also stated that the SKG campaign doesn’t want single player games to have DRM that the developers can turn off.
On the other hand, Ross Scott also hit back and claimed that Pirate Software completely made up false impressions. Scott explained that this campaign never pushed the developers to convert every online game to single player titles.
He also stated that this campaign was initiated to make the publishers emphasize on giving a clear life-span plan of every game out there. Despite the backlash from Pirate Software, it seems Ross Scott has got
the backing of one of the biggest YouTubers in the world.
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