The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as the original statement of the Stop Killing Games campaign.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Accursed Farms

Topic

game preservation

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2024–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This is a campaign to stop game publishers from turning off and rendering their games-as-a-service which people might have paid for completely inaccessible. The goal is to contact as many consumer agencies worldwide until we have some solid legislation that forces game companies to patch …

• For extra context, you can watch Ross Scott's videos about his campaign to stop games being killed. Original video with all the different avenues he's trying: [VIDEO] The one specifically about this initiative: [LINK] He's done smaller update videos on how it's been progressing on …

• The [recent CA legislation]( [LINK] ) brought back the topic of Stop Killing Games which is an ongoing campaign to pass laws similar to the CA ban and much more. If you want a very short exposition of what Stop Killing Games is, here's a …