EU Game Manufacturers Industry Association openly opposes the "Stop Killing Games" campaign

2025-07-16 23:45:00|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

This weekend, the Stop Killing Games campaign reached a critical milestone in becoming a European citizen initiative, but not everyone expressed support."Video Games Europe," an industry association representing EU game developers and publishers, issued a statement on Friday, opposing the movement.

"We understand the enthusiasm of the community; however, the decision to terminate online services is multifaceted and is by no means a rash move. Businesses must have this option when online experiences are no longer commercially viable. We understand that this may disappoint players, but when such situations occur, the industry ensures that players are reasonably notified of potential changes in accordance with local consumer protection laws."

"Private servers are not always a viable alternative for players, as the measures we take to protect player data, remove illegal content and combat unsafe community content will no longer exist, which will put copyright holders in legal liability. In addition, many games have only supported online mode since their design; in fact, these proposals will limit developers' choices by making the development cost prohibitively high for video games."

“We welcome discussions with policy makers and leaders of the ‘European Citizen Initiative’ in the coming months.”

The core argument of Video Games Europe is that it is too expensive for developers and publishers to provide private servers or single player modes in games that lose online multiplayer support, and public or player-supported versions of these games can pose legal risks to businesses, especially in terms of cybersecurity and content audits.

As the Stop Kill Games movement points out, the other side of the problem is that players pay for these games.If the game is discontinued, they (usually) cannot get a refund, which actually means they are paying for a product that has been taken away.Of course, developers and publishers argue that players are not buying products but access licenses for game, but many players don't think so.

As the official website of Stop Kill Games explains: “Stop Kill Games is a consumer campaign designed to challenge the legitimacy of publishers to destroy the sold games. More and more video games are actually sold as merchandise – without expiration dates – but are designed to be completely unplayable once the publisher stops supporting them.

"This practice is planned to be scrapped, which not only harms consumers' interests, but also makes game preservation almost impossible. In addition, the legitimacy of this practice has not been tested in many countries."

Regardless of Video Games Europe's attitude to the sport, it's clearly becoming more and more popular among players after its EU petition received over a million signatures.Unfortunately, even if the Stop Kill Games campaign ultimately succeeds in promoting policy changes, these changes only apply to the EU (and possibly the UK), so publishers and developers may still be able to permanently shut down games in other parts of the world.

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