The Stop Killing Games motion hits a bit nearer for Ubisoft than some corporations partially as a result of the writer is dealing with a lawsuit for shutting down the servers for The Crew final yr. Throughout an Ubisoft shareholders assembly, CEO Yves Guillemot was requested to deal with the targets of Stop Killing Games and he replied that video games aren’t meant to “final perpetually.”
Ubisoft shared the text of the shareholders meeting (through Game File), Guillemot mentioned, “You present a service, however nothing is written in stone and sooner or later the service could also be discontinued. Nothing is everlasting. And we’re doing our greatest to ensure that issues go nicely for all gamers and patrons, as a result of clearly assist for all video games can’t final perpetually. However that is a problem that we’re engaged on. That is one thing that the trade at massive is engaged on, to attenuate impression on gamers. However clearly that is one thing you must think about.”
Stop Killing Games was started last year by YouTube host Ross Scott within the aftermath of Ubisoft’s resolution to sundown The Crew. The motion challenges the legality and ethics of publishers’ selections to close down video games which have beforehand been bought to customers. The EU lobbying affiliation Video Games Europe not too long ago responded that Stop Killing Games’ proposals to maintain older video games alive “would curtail developer selection by making these video video games prohibitively costly to create.”
Ubisoft is not the one firm taking older video games offline. BioWare’s Anthem will probably be shutting down in January 2026. Final yr, Sony’s Harmony solely lasted just a few weeks earlier than it was additionally shut down.