Gamers usually pay 50 euros or more for a current PC or console game. An investment that can quickly go up in smoke if the manufacturers pull the plug on their servers, making the games partially or even completely unusable. A YouTuber is now protesting this practice and calling on politicians to stop ‘killing games’.
Whether it concerns films, music, books or video games: with increasing digitalization, it is becoming increasingly difficult for consumers to purchase physical copies of their favorite media and therefore own them permanently. This is not without consequences: especially in the field of video games, in the past year countless titles in which players had invested not only time but especially money have been taken off the Internet and thus made inaccessible.
Current example: Ubisoft’s “The Crew”. On March 31, the French publisher stopped supporting the online racing game – even though it still had at least twelve million players ten years after its release, according to a now-deleted blog post from Ubisoft, as YouTuber Ross Scott complains. In a 31-minute video on his Accused Farms channel (see below), he denounces the practice and calls on gamers around the world to stop “killing games” as part of a campaign.
Source: Krone
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