Die Shrink 156 (Video): Stop Killing Games
Added 2025-07-23 18:42:58 +0000 UTCRoss Scott joins Tom to discuss the Stop Killing Games movement – what it wants to accomplish, what it isn’t trying to accomplish, and the future of game preservation.
0:00 Why is Scott doing this NOW? What are his favorite old games?
12:52 Stop Killing Games – Overview & Goals
29:53 How would this effect evolving online games?
39:24 What about older games?
41:35 Will this kill indie studios?
46:51 Will this help the Dead Marketplace issue?
57:14 SIGN UP NOW – Deadline is almost here!
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
https://xboxera.com/2025/07/22/anonymous-complaint-filed-against-stop-killing-games-eu-initiative/
https://kotaku.com/stop-killing-games-accursed-farms-piratesoftware-eu-1851785707
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Killing_Games
https://www.thegamer.com/destiny-2-content-vault-forsaken-unacceptable/
Comments
I would love follow-up episode(s) with developer(s) discussing the feasibility of end-of-life removal of online requirements/components for games and going through different ones. From the light ones like "messages on the ground" in Demon's Souls to the higher ones where the game is more multiplayer focused but you could play by yourself or with in-game bots (that usually are available from the start). I say this because I've already seen publishers saying that "it would be prohibitively expensive" to do such a thing. I bet that, particularly if legislation passes in agreeance with this movement, new games started after the fact and having it in consideration would take it into account from the very start and thus the cost would be negligible in the scale of the whole development.
Manuel Nascimento
2025-07-23 20:27:43 +0000 UTC
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