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Stop Killing Games aims to mount political and legal challenges to games going offline
This week's shutdown of Ubisoft racing game The Crew has prompted the launch of a concerted effort to mount political a…
Launched this week, the campaign calls upon video game fans around the world to petition their local governments about the issue, with a specific directive for past owners of The Crew itself. Watch on YouTube The main thrust of the campaign, though, is to use The Crew's shutdown to launch a direct complaint with the DGCCRF, France's Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention. As Ubisoft is French, and headquarted in Paris, the aim here is to get the country's authorities to act on the issue, as the company only informed players it would shut down the decade-old title in December last year.
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