Stop Killing Games Consumer Movement Surpasses 1 Million Signatures
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- Stop Killing Games is a consumer movement that challenges the legality of publishers that ruin video games sold to consumers.
- The movement has 1,043,314 signatures so far.
- The initiative began in 2024 by Ross Scott after The Crew was shut down.
Stop Killing Games, a consumer movement that was started in 2024 by YouTuber Ross Scott, has now amassed over 1 million signatures. The consumer movement is attempting to challenge the legality of publishers that allegedly destroy video games that they have sold to consumers.
Scott voiced issues with The Crew having been shut down in 2024, during which the Stop Killing Games initiative initially began. The Crew was a mostly single-player game that required an internet connection. The game was released in 2014 and was developed and published by Ubisoft. After the shutdown, The Crew was not available to play by consumers to any extent. Ubisoft reportedly began revoking licenses from players who had bought The Crew after the shutdown on March 31, 2024.
The movement launched a European Citizens’ Initiative to introduce a new law in the EU against publishers who are “purposefully destroying video games they have already sold.” The initiative deadline to sign is July 31, 2025. Here is its objective, according to an official posting:
“This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.
Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.
The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state.”
Stop Killing Games’ cumulative signatures exploded exponentially in the past couple of days. Over the past week, Microsoft had widespread layoffs, canceling numerous future projects and axing development studios.
