A New Game is launched Stop Killing Games petition is 95% of the way to its 1 million signatures goal, a year after Ubisoft sparked the preservation campaign by taking always-online racing game The Crew offline is launched.
Stop Killing Games petition is 95% of the way to its 1 million signatures goal, a year after Ubisoft sparked the preservation campaign by taking always-online racing game The Crew offlinenew features
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But the initiative might need “at least 1.2-1.3 million”
Stop Killing Games petition is 95% of the way to its 1 million signatures goal, a year after Ubisoft sparked the preservation campaign by taking always-online racing game The Crew offline new features
The Stop Killing Games initiative is now more than 90% of the way to its goal of reaching a million signatures, but the petition’s organizers warn that there’s still a lot more work to be done.
Stop Killing Games is essentially an international consumer rights campaign kickstarted by Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew – rendering the open-world racing game unplayable to anyone who bought a copy – and aims to contact lawmakers in various countries to stop publishers from deactivating online-only games. “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,” the initiative’s description reads.
The movement then sought a million signatures from EU citizens to get the initiative properly in front of the European Commission, which could (hopefully and potentially) lead to some legislation requiring video game companies to either keep their games online or make them playable in an offline state. And, now, after a year, it’s almost reached the one million milestone it needs.