Launched in 2024 and remaining largely under the radar for over a year, the Stop Killing Games initiative has surged back to life over the past week, breaking out of the gaming community and into the mainstream, surpasing 900,000 signatures, and continuing to gain momentum every single hour, putting it on track to hit the required 1,000,000 in the coming hours.
For those unfamiliar, the movement was initiated in April 2024 by Ross Scott, the creator of the Accursed Farms YouTube channel, in response to Ubisoft shutting down The Crew, as well as the broader trend of game development studios rendering video games the players have payed for unplayable at their convenience without offering refunds or at least preserving them as single-player experiences.
Following a year filled with unsuccessful petitions and disregard from those in power, Stop Killing Games’ latest petition – addressed to the European Commission – has breathed new life into the movement by attracting attention even from outside the EU. After catching the interest of regular players, it snowballed further, drawing the support of popular internet personalities like PewDiePie, Moist Critical, and many others, gaining hundreds of thousands of signatures in just a few days.
At the moment, the petition sits at over 933,000 signatures, gaining thousands more quite literally every single minute – it was at 925,000 when I began writing this piece – making its reaching the required 1,000,000 a matter of “when” and not “if”. Once it does, Ross will have the opportunity to present the initiative to the European Commission and speak at a public hearing in the European Parliament, significantly boosting the chances of the movement’s core goal – to force game studios to leave games in a playable state – becoming law, at least in the EU.
If you are a EU citizen who’d like to support Stop Killing Games but haven’t yet, you can sign the petition by clicking this link.
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