The YouTuber behind the Stop Killing Games initiative has published a detailed video announcing the end of the campaign and weighing up its chances of success.
The YouTuber behind the Stop Killing Games initiative has published a detailed video announcing the end of the campaign and weighing up its chances of success.
Games don’t belong to us, as more and more gamers are realizing. Publishers can do whatever they want with them and even shut down servers to cut off access to our
game if there is an online requirement.
The Stop Killing Games initiative is fighting against this situation: It wants to oblige publishers to keep games accessible by creating the legal basis for this. But things are looking bleak at the moment: The founder of Stop Killing Games, YouTuber Ross Scott (Accursed Farms), explains in a new video that, at least for him, the project will soon come to an end.
Has Stop Killing Games failed?
In his approximately one-hour video, Ross Scott explains everything about the current status of Stop Killing Games. Currently, there are only two chances left for the project:
- A European Citizens’ Initiative: If it collects enough votes, the EU Commission will have to address the demands of Stop Killing Games. However, only 459,000 of the one million signatures required have been collected so far (as of June 24). You can still sign yourself until July 31. selbst noch unterzeichnen
- A petition to the UK government:Just under 85,000 of the 100,000 signatures are still missing, so the chances of success are even slimmer. Even if it were successful, the government would only consider addressing the issue.
Ross himself believes that Stop Killing Games has little chance of success at this point. For him, this marks the end of the initiative, into which he has put a great deal of work. He spent entire workdays promoting the campaign. He gave countless interviews, answered questions, and dealt with legal issues.
Ross’ frustration and exhaustion are clearly evident. The lack of success of the European Citizens’ Initiative in particular has shown him that there is generally too little interest in citizen participation in the form of petitions and initiatives.
The fact that streamer and former Blizzard developer Jason Thor Hall (Pirate Software) spoke out against Stop Killing Games also took the wind out of the campaign’s sails. And that despite his arguments being unfounded and based on false claims.
If the initiative fails, Ross says, at least The Crew 2 and Motorfest will have been saved, as Ubisoft has added an offline mode for both games. But ultimately, he believes the efforts were not enough.
Ross himself still hopes for success and would be very happy if further attempts were made in the future to save games from disappearing. However, he will not be involved himself: after all, he wants to play games on his channel rather than just trying to save them.
deo published a post announcing the end of the campaign and weighing up the chances of success.
Games do not belong to us, as more and more gamers are realizing. Publishers can do whatever they want with them and even shut down servers to deny access to our
game if it requires an online connection.
The Stop Killing Games initiative is fighting against this situation: It wants to oblige publishers to keep games accessible by creating the legal basis for this. But things are looking bleak at the moment: The founder of Stop Killing Games, YouTuber Ross Scott (Accursed Farms), explains in a new video that, at least for him, the project will soon come to an end.
Has Stop Killing Games failed?
In his approximately one-hour video, Ross Scott explains everything about the current status of Stop Killing Games. Currently, there are only two chances left for the project:
- A European Citizens’ Initiative: If it collects enough votes, the EU Commission will have to address the demands of Stop Killing Games. However, only 459,000 of the one million signatures required have been collected so far (as of June 24). You can still sign yourself until July 31. selbst noch unterzeichnen
- A petition to the UK government:Just under 85,000 of the 100,000 signatures are still missing, so the chances of success are even slimmer. Even if it were successful, the government would only consider addressing the issue.
Ross himself believes that Stop Killing Games has little chance of success at this point. For him, this marks the end of the initiative, into which he has put a great deal of work. He spent entire workdays promoting the campaign. He gave countless interviews, answered questions, and dealt with legal issues.
Ross’ frustration and exhaustion are clearly evident. The lack of success of the European Citizens’ Initiative in particular has shown him that there is generally too little interest in citizen participation in the form of petitions and initiatives.
The fact that streamer and former Blizzard developer Jason Thor Hall (Pirate Software) spoke out against Stop Killing Games also took the wind out of the campaign’s sails. And that despite his arguments being unfounded and based on false claims.
If the initiative fails, Ross says, at least The Crew 2 and Motorfest have been saved, for which Ubisoft has built in an offline mode. But in the end, the efforts were not good enough.
Ross himself still hopes for success and would be very happy if there were further attempts to save games from disappearing in the future. However, he will not be involved himself: after all, he actually wants to play games on his channel instead of just trying to save them.
