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How a YouTuber wants to stop “game murder”

According to the initiator, the games industry has "gotten away with this crap" for too long.(Bild: adimas – stock.adobe.com, KI-generiert)

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, rendering the games partially or even completely unusable. One YouTuber is now protesting against this practice and appealing to politicians to stop the "killing of games".

Whether films, music, books or video games: With increasing digitalization, it is becoming more difficult for consumers to buy physical copies of their favourite media and therefore to own them permanently. This is not without consequences: In the video game sector in particular, numerous titles in which players had invested not only time, but above all money, have been taken off the net in recent years and thus made inaccessible.

A current example: Ubisoft's "The Crew". On March 31, the French publisher discontinued support for 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 by Ubisoft, as YouTuber Ross Scott laments. In a 31-minute video on his channel "Accused Farms" (see below), he denounces this practice and calls on gamers worldwide to stop "killing games" as part of a campaign.