The group known as Stop Killing Games has been working hard since 2024. They started because game companies, like Ubisoft, were shutting down online-only games such as ‘The Crew,’ making it so people couldn’t play them anymore. In 2025, this group launched a special request to the European Union. Some big game companies didn’t like this idea, saying it would cost too much money. But now, the group has gotten way more signatures than they needed, with almost 1.3 million people signing up.
Moritz Katzner, who is in charge of Stop Killing Games, shared an update on their online forum. He said that things are moving very quickly. The original plan was to share all the details in a video, along with a new website and an updated chat group. However, the team decided to release the final count of signatures early. Even after taking out signatures that weren’t real or couldn’t be checked, they still had almost 1.3 million valid signatures. This is much more than their goal of 1 million.
Germany showed the most support with over 233,000 signatures. France, Poland, and Spain also had a lot of people sign, with over 100,000 each. Along with this news, Ross Scott, who started Stop Killing Games (also known as Accursed Farms), put out a video:
Ross Scott explained, “We have met the requirement, and the next step is to officially give these signatures to the European Commission in Brussels. This will likely happen sometime in late February.” He also mentioned, just like in the online post, that more updates will be coming soon to keep the effort going strong.
It’s important to remember that this effort isn’t about taking over games, their ideas, or making money from them once they are no longer supported. It’s also not directly about saving old games in general. Instead, the main goal of Stop Killing Games is to stop game companies from remotely turning off video games. They want companies to provide a way for these games to keep working without the company’s constant involvement.
A good recent example of a major game that was turned off by its maker and basically disappeared is ‘Anthem,’ a game that didn’t do very well. On the other hand, there’s the ‘Avengers’ video game, which came out in 2020 and got mixed reviews. After the company stopped supporting it (which was surprisingly for a long time), the game was no longer sold because its license ran out. However, it can still be played fully because of how its online system works, where players connect directly to each other.
