Pirate Software

Stop Killing Games (SKG) is a consumer movement with the goal of preserving video games after they are taken offline. It was started in 2024 by Ross Scott after the shutdown of Ubisoft's The Crew, a racing game that required a constant internet connection despite being mainly single-player. It uses various legal avenues to push for video game publishers being required to keep games playable and in a reasonably functioning state even after their discontinuation, challenging the industry trend of selling games as a revocable "license" or service that can at any moment be rendered obsolete by the publisher.