YouTuber Ross Scott has launched a brand new marketing campaign and web site known as Cease Killing Video games, to combat towards the set sample of on-line video games finally changing into unplayable. Lately, Ubisoft made The Crew, a decade-old sport, unplayable and said “server infrastructure and licensing constraints” as the rationale.
Ross Scott has a YouTube channel named Accursed Farms, and a brand new web site known as Cease Killing Video games has been established to rally assist for the marketing campaign. Scott instructed PC Gamer that the marketing campaign exists to oppose the trade’s “assault on each client rights and preservation of media.”
This want for opposition was felt by Scott as a result of publishers have been promoting digital video games, that are licensed to get entry to those video games, and gamers don’t actually personal these titles. These licenses are additionally conditional, the place publishers reserve all rights to revoke these licenses. Which means that even if in case you have paid full worth for a digital sport, it is extremely a lot doable that you could be lose full entry to it sometime. That is what occurred with The Crew as properly.
Scott additionally instructed PC Gamer that he plans on taking this combat to international locations similar to France, the place he hopes to get a judgment in assist of his marketing campaign. He provides that when publishers in France have to start out planning out ways in which enable avid gamers to play a sport indefinitely, the entire trade will quickly begin to undertake such practices as properly.
The YouTuber has additionally instructed that even when the writer can not keep the prices required to maintain these servers working and the sport playable, there might be another answer the place the video games begin receiving non-public server assist. At present, the marketing campaign is but to select a lot traction as authorities petitions are nonetheless not authorized.
“Because it stands, I am optimistic no less than one division of the French authorities will look at the legality of this apply, and with fingers crossed, doable French court docket motion, and additional examinations from Germany and Australia. All the things else continues to be up within the air in the meanwhile,” he mentioned.
