Talk:Stop Killing Games

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by History6042 talk 18:35, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that the YouTuber behind Stop Killing Games compared video game publishers shutting down online-only games to silent-era film studios "burning their own films ... to recover the silver content"?

• Source: PC Gamer: 'You'll probably recognize Ross Scott's voice immediately—he's the creator and narrator of YouTube webseries Freeman's Mind—and he's one of the organizers behind Stop Killing Games. Scott compares the practice of publishers shutting down games to movie studios during the silent film era "burning their own films after they were done showing them to recover the silver content," pointing out that "now most films of that era are gone forever." Game preservation is a concern, definitely, but so is protecting consumers.'

• ALT1: ... that the Stop Killing Games initiative spawned multiple government petitions in Europe and helped prompt Ubisoft to promise an offline mode for a couple of their online-only video games? Source: PC Gamer 'But the decision to commit to offline modes for both games probably isn't driven solely by player numbers, but rather emerges from the unpleasantness (and potential future unpleasantness) sparked by the shutdown of the original Crew earlier this year. Ubisoft delisted The Crew in December 2023 and rendered it unplayable as of April 1, 2024, saying the move was necessitated by "server infrastructure and licensing constraints." But rather than quietly accepting that boilerplate justification as Ubisoft presumably expected, The Crew fans pushed back hard, launching a "Stop Killing Games" initiative that seems more serious and well-considered than the name might at first suggest. A petition to the European Union hasn't yet attracted the one million signatures required to move it forward for possible adoption as law, but it has attracted 350,000 signatures in less than two months, and that's not nothing.'
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Adolph Bieberstein

Created by Dabmasterars (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 84 past nominations.

DigitalIceAge (talk) 03:49, 27 June 2025 (UTC).

• Article and hooks look good. I find ALT0 to be a better hook but both spark interest. ~UN6892 ^t_c 15:42, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

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Johnson524 03:14, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Signature Count

I think that the signature count should be displayed in the Quick Facts section as I believe it to be relevant to the article's subject. However, I get the feeling this could be seen as Wikipedia pushing an initiative, which is why I want to make sure it's acceptable before doing anything. 136.61.84.2 (talk) 00:11, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

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Misattribution/misrepresentation

Note, in the paragraph beginning "In July 2025, Video Games Europe...", there are currently two quotes that are presented as though they are from Video Games Europe. They are actually quotes of the author of the cited PC Gamer article paraphrasing the VGE statement. Ersatzcats (talk) 17:31, 14 July 2025 (UTC)