Stop Killing Games did a very dirty move to bring more attention to the campaign during a debate in the UK. The fact that even politicians are discussing about the massive flop that Concord was is baffling and this is all a mere part of the plan for what’s in store for live service producers. The fact that games can shutdown is legally grey, but now under scrutiny some are claiming that its just outright illegal to remove a product from your or disable it remotely. Games are products, not services, anyone that fails to respect consumer laws should get punished right in the pockets.
Stop Killing Games will reshape Live Services
Concord was brought up because its one of the most famous examples of video game flops on the history of the medium. A Guiness world record in closing a live service as quick as it came out stealing money from people without them even realizing it. It was a multi-billion disaster that nobody asked for and nobody wanted as the world is already too filled with plenty of live service slop that no one requested either, except investors of course. No regular person wants to see games of this kind, especially when they come with a price tag and close right in your face.
Even free games are guilty of this, and Stop Killing Games wants to apply laws to keep things equal with every single example. This won’t mean the death of live service games, they will still be able to operate, but they need to be as consumer friendly as possible, even providing us the ability to host our own servers. Back in the day, you could host game servers in 90% of online games, why can’t we do it now? We should fight to regain that basic right back and support Stop Killing Games.
