Stop Killing Games has blown up in popularity over the past month or so. It's a movement dedicated to stopping video game publishers from shutting down their titles and making them inaccessible to those that have already paid for them. It's a consumer-focused movement, and one that big video game publishers (and one particularly vilified Twitch streamer) aren't too keen on seeing succeed.
A European gaming industry lobby recently claimed that Stop Killing Games is going to have "a chilling effect" on development should it succeed, while Ubisoft recently claimed that "support for all games cannot last forever", despite nobody actually asking them to support a game forever. Despite these objections from the games industry, Stop Killing Games reached its goal of 1.4 million signatures earlier today.
Stop Killing Games Accuses Games Industry Of Filing "False Claims" To Get Movement Shut Down
Naturally, you'd assume that this would be a cause for celebration, but YouTuber Accursed Farms (the spearhead of the entire operation) revealed some rather troubling news. In his latest YouTube video (thanks Eurogamer), Accursed Farms revealed that the European arm of the Stop Killing Games movement has been hit with "false claims", and that it violated two different EU regulations.
Essentially, the complaints accuse Accursed Farms of not disclosing funding sources and "undisclosed professional contributions" towards the campaign, both of which the YouTuber vehemently denies. It...
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