Stop Killing Games
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Stop Killing Games is a community-led campaign promoting continued development and support for video games after they are discontinued by publishers.
Also known as stop killing games movement·skg
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Stop Killing Games backs Dutch consumer rights lawsuit against Sony's PlayStation digital store "monopoly" as it branches out beyond game preservation
Stop Killing Games seems to be branching out from just campaigning to keep games accessible after their servers are shut down.
The authors of the Stop Killing Games initiative have decided to sue Sony over markups in the PlayStation Store | Game World Observer
In February 2025, the Dutch consumer rights organization Stichting Massaschade & Consument filed a class action lawsuit against Sony’s gaming division. A year and a half later, the authors of Stop Kil
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"It's time to sue Sony": Stop Killing Games joins lawsuit over PlayStation's digital "monopoly" amid death of physical games
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What if Stop Killing Games win? Anthem, SpaceCraft and Warframe devs on the "massive undertaking" of reverse engineering an always-online game
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Stop Killing Games: The fight over who owns the games you buy
Stop Killing Games: The fight over who owns the games you buy
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Is the Stop Killing Games campaign destined to fail?Is Stop Killing Games a win for consumer awareness?
Even before digital, if you bought a game, you had a license to play it, you didn’t actually own it. Of course, that’s in the legal sense. In practicality, unless a publisher was going to come to your home and take the game off you, you effectively owned it. Now in a digital world, that legal reality is proving an issue for users. And they’re becoming aware of something they perhaps didn’t realize before. “If nothing else, the campaign has highlighted that when it comes to digital media of certain types, it’s not about whether you’re purchasing the media, it’s you are purchasing access to it,
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However, preservation efforts haven't found much success in the political sphere as of late. Just two weeks ago, the European Commission officially responded to the Stop Killing Games movement, explaining that it "cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially"—dealing a significant blow to the fight for digital ownership. Earlier this week in the United States, the 'Protect Our Games Act' (AB 1921), proposed by California Assemblymember Chris Ward, was likewise stalled in a state senate committee. Nonetheless, SKG remains determined.
French Presidential Candidate Fights For Physical Games: "Gamers Have Rights Too"