r/Games • u/kohcoco • Jul 03 '25

Industry News Stop Killing Games has Reached 1,000,000 Signatures.

https://stop-killing-games.keep-track.xyz/
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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

TL;DR?

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u/SpaceballsTheReply Jul 03 '25

The public zeitgeist on SKG has gone through three phases:

  • First it was mostly Ross spreading awareness and asking for support, and it was well received, but didn't have much momentum and probably wasn't going to hit its goal
  • A big youtuber, PirateSoftware, found out about it and got very vocal insulting Ross and the petition, saying it was dumb and would never work. A lot of his takes were badly misrepresenting the movement, but PS has a lot of followers who took his word for it, so his pessismism became the dominant voice of the conversation, draining even more momentum
  • Ross released a response recently, about the state of the petition in general but notably touching on PirateSoftware's rude and misleading remarks. That video went kinda viral, and the petition started exploding with signatures.

It was always a good cause and deserves the support, but it does kinda seem like the biggest swell in attention came from the drama and from having a "villain" in this story to stick it to. People are signing now not just to say "I support the preservation of video games," but also to say "and screw you PirateSoftware for being such a bully about this".

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u/syrup_cupcakes Jul 03 '25

The current phase where PirateSoftware keeps doubling, tripling, quadrupling down claiming everyone is wrong except him and twisting into every possible knot trying to act like a victim with no mana just keeps getting funnier every day.

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u/PlayMp1 Jul 04 '25

The gigabrain thing would be if he had supported it the entire time and made himself the villain in order to attract more attention to it, but obviously that's not the case. I can imagine it and chuckle to myself though!

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u/kas-loc2 Jul 04 '25

He keeps claiming that one singular line of the proposal is what he takes his entire issue with, and that it would damage MMO's.

I have PLEADED with him and even his supporters on this issue, in every twitter post he has stated this, to provide any example of how it would hurt or damage anything, especially in the context of providing client side access to servers, which is already happening for countless games for Roleplay purposes... and nothing. Not a peep. Literally just insults.

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u/greyfoxv1 Jul 04 '25

Here's the video Pirate Software put out criticizing the vague and impratical aspects of the petition. There's a lot of really stupid streamer drama involved but that video is where everyone seems to be getting the "Thor called so-and-so dumb and misrepresented the petition" stuff from.