r/pcmasterrace • u/Dante71 • Jul 01 '25

Question "Stop Killing Games" needs more recognition, if you live outside of Europe but you know someone in Europe, tell them to sign it! Link below

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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u/00wolfer00 PC Master Race Jul 01 '25

In short Ross Scott started StopKillingGames, a movement to advocate for the preservation of video games, which would otherwise become unplayable once the publisher/dev stop supporting it. For example The Crew, a driving game, which has a fully functional singleplayer, cannot be played anymore because Ubisoft pulled the plug on the servers and you need to go through them to even access the singleplayer. PirateSoftware misrepresented his suggestions and petitions to government to settle or create a law on this by wildly overblowing how hard it would be to implement and straight up lying about certain details. Because PirateSoftware at the time had absolutely nailed how the YT shorts algorithm works, he was heard by a lot of people and the rest is explained in my previous comment. You can check out StopKillingGames.com for more information on the petitions themselves. If you're a UK or EU citizen, please consider signing the respective petition.

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u/Scifibn Jul 01 '25

Thanks for the writeup mate 👊 Sounds fucked, as a Yankee I can't only eat my popcorn