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[ANSWERED] What's going on with some person seemingly called "PirateSoftware" and the stop killing games campaign?
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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The Stop Killing games campaign is an EU petition to prevent game developers from making games that people bought unplayable, for example by turning off the servers of always-online games.
Pirate Software is a youtuber and game developer who made several videos criticizing the campaign. He thinks it's unreasonable to expect game developers to do this and also asserts that people who purchase games don't own them. His videos supposedly had a measurable negative impact on the petition, which at this point looks like it might fail. Combined with the fact that he often acted quite rude and arrogant towards supporters of the campaign, he is now quite unpopular among them.
Isn't that a large part of what the petition is aiming for though?
To be more clear, PirateSoftware thinks the status quo of only owning a license for a game, which can be revoked at any time, is a good thing that should be kept.
Stop Killing Games would give consumers more rights, which would bring the purchase of a digital game license closer to actual ownership.
What kind of head injury does one need to sustain to come up with that conclusion
The combination of 'industry plant' and 'blizzard nepobaby' are consistent accusations since his videos
The idea from pirate software is that they shouldn't and that's the better scenario.