Ross Scott Starts "Stop Killing Games" Initiative

Do you want to own a game that you bought? Obviously you do, right? Unfortunately, what you want and what video game publishers do are not always the same thing, and in this case, Ubisoft shutting down The Crew was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The camel in question? Ross Scott from the Accursed Farms fame. You might know him from the classic Freeman's Mind series, where he narrated Gordon Freeman's otherwise silent journey, or his older video that raised the concerns over Games as a Service problem.

This time, he's focusing on a similarly important topic of game ownership, urging people to contact their local governments to have the customer protection laws step in and stop game publishers from shutting down and intentionally making games unplayable after people have bought them.

The Crew here is merely an excuse to raise a concern over a wider industry trend of planned obsolescence and tying games to online services that can be shut down at any point, rendering your purchase null and void.

Fighting games are largely safe from this. We will always have the local 1v1 at the very least, surely? However, all the modern titles tie more and more of their features to online servers, you can't even play Invasions in MK without going online or otherwise having access to WB servers.

If this cause hits its stride, perhaps there is hope for a future where your purchase is not just a license, and where you can play your games regardless of the company's decisions.