The Stop Killing Games campaign is picking up serious momentum as two of the biggest voices in gaming—YouTube titan PewDiePie and former World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern (aka Grummz)—publicly threw their support behind the growing global effort.
The movement, founded by Freeman’s Mind creator Ross Scott, was launched in response to game publishers quietly shutting down online services for purchased titles, rendering them unplayable even in single-player mode. The most prominent example remains The Crew, which Ubisoft removed access to in April 2024 despite players having paid for it.
Now, major influencers are speaking up. One of these was PewDiePie, one of the biggest gaming YouTubers on the planet.
PewDiePie throws support behind the Stop Killing Games movement. – YouTube, PewDiePie
“In the comments, I’ve seen some of you mention ‘Stop Killing Games’ and I want to say: I 100% support this movement,” PewDiePie said in a YouTube community post. “It ties in perfectly with what I talked about in my video—ownership over software (and the games we buy).”
The Swedish creator encouraged fans to sign the petition at StopKillingGames.com, emphasizing that it “takes like 30 seconds.” While only residents of the EU or UK can officially sign, PewDiePie stressed that sharing still helps the cause.
700k signatures! Keep going! Stop Killing Games.https://t.co/9oDniIr9CZ
— Grummz (@Grummz) July 1, 2025
Another prominent supporter is Grummz, who helped lead development on World of Warcraft and has long advocated for game preservation. In an exclusive statement to That Park Place, he backed the Stop Killing Games campaign—but with a note of concern.
“Game preservation has always been important to me,” Grummz told us. “I started the archival department at Blizzard and I delivered the petition for WoW Classic to Blizzard and helped convince them to preserve the original.”
Grummz, however, did voice skepticism about government efficiency.
“While the EU does not have the best track record for good legislations, we have to start somewhere. Games cannot just vanish, and I’ve taken a pledge with our own games that if we no longer support a game, that we will release the code and license that game to gamers who want to keep it going. This is the way forward that makes most sense to us.”
A screenshot from The Crew (2016), Ivory Tower
The Stop Killing Games campaign is spearheading petitions across the EU, UK, and several other regions. The EU initiative recently surpassed 721,000 signatures—with 1 million required before a July 31st deadline for potential legislation to be considered by the European Commission.
If successful, the campaign could lead to laws requiring publishers to offer offline functionality or open-source alternatives when shutting down games permanently. Supporters say this isn’t just about nostalgia—it’s about protecting consumer rights and preserving digital culture.
Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg via PewDiePie YouTube
For players who’ve spent hundreds of dollars on digital libraries, only to find titles vanish years later, the campaign is striking a nerve. And with high-profile names like PewDiePie and Grummz now amplifying the message, the Stop Killing Games movement may be reaching a tipping point.
Let us know in the comments—should publishers be forced to maintain access to games post-launch? Or is this just part of the digital age we live in?
UP NEXT: Ironheart Episodes 4–6 Finale Review: It Got SO Much Worse!
I hope this gets the support it needs but I have my doubts it’ll reach its goal. We shouldn’t even NEED a petition for this sort of thing, why wouldn’t we want to preserve what has been made?
Don’t get excited now, this petition was started by some brain dead goyim normies who only play grindy + gacha + GAAS + always-online + daily login + daily challenge + loot boxes + pay-to-win + cut content sold as paid DLC etc. etc. etc. trashes like Overwatch, League of Legends, Fartnite, etc and then call themselves “gamers!” and are expressing their outrage specifically over trashes like these being lost (good riddance!).
It does not refer to ACTUAL GAMES that are ACTUALLY OWNABLE (or as per what their Jewish dictionaries call it “pIrAtE-aBlE gAmEs!!!”).
Retarded buyfag goyim like these deserve EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS TO THEM for burning their money over something they ALREADY KNOW that they don’t own, and yet they nonetheless proceeded to give money to these infantophilic JuDEIst companies to fund the literal worst genocide of the 21st century through the Mossad and recently started another war in Lebanon and in Yemen and most recently in Iran and wants to escalate it further and further until it ultimately becomes a global war (including the so-called “civilized” West that worships and adores these subhumans, AKA the (((“innocent chosen people pacfists who aren’t capable of scratching even an ant!”))) as per what their Talmudick fairy tales call them).
[…] Fonte: thatparkplace […]