Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Stop Killing Games has rightfully gained some momentum, but is it relevant for gachas?
Equipment RNG sucks: youtube.com/watch?v=D05rW_gnPGc&list=PL9ZYbPkYPaHPKf8VMpUmv3FwURBFoFJem
People often lament the way the modern world leaves us with less and less ownership of the things we buy. In some cases, this has reached absurd levels: cars where you need to pay a subscription in order to enable the heating which is already built into the seats, printers which refuse to print if you buy ink from a different company, or that one time Amazon deleted 1984 from Kindle devices.
The Stop Killing Games movement aims to reverse this trend when it comes to games. In a landscape where almost everything is live-service with endless microtransactions, and players seem to have no rights left at all, their initiative requests new laws which put back some ownership into our hands.
Let’s talk about what they’re asking for, why you should pay attention, and why something which might sound like it’s aimed at removing DRM from single-player games does apply to live-service gacha games.
Stop Killing Games: stopkillinggames.com
EU Petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/
UK Petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo
00:00 Intro
00:52 Stop Killing Games • What is it?
02:20 Stop Killing Games • Why now?
03:46 Stop Killing Games • What is it not?
04:52 Stop Killing Games • Why the EU matters
05:59 Live service • Ownership
07:43 Live service • Multiplayer
09:26 Live service • Gachas
10:19 Gacha players' perspective • Emotional investment
12:09 Gacha players' perspective • What would be left?
14:13 Developers' perspective
15:50 Conclusion
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#stopkillinggames #piratesoftware #rossscott #genshinimpact #wutheringwaves
Stop Killing Games has rightfully gained some momentum, but is it relevant for gachas?
Equipment RNG sucks: youtube.com/watch?v=D05rW_gnPGc&list=PL9ZYbPkYPaHPKf8VMpUmv3FwURBFoFJem
People often lament the way the modern world leaves us with less and less ownership of the things we buy. In some cases, this has reached absurd levels: cars where you need to pay a subscription in order to enable the heating which is already built into the seats, printers which refuse to print if you buy ink from a different company, or that one time Amazon deleted 1984 from Kindle devices.
The Stop Killing Games movement aims to reverse this trend when it comes to games. In a landscape where almost everything is live-service with endless microtransactions, and players seem to have no rights left at all, their initiative requests new laws which put back some ownership into our hands.
Let’s talk about what they’re asking for, why you should pay attention, and why something which might sound like it’s aimed at removing DRM from single-player games does apply to live-service gacha games.
Stop Killing Games: stopkillinggames.com
EU Petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/
UK Petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo
00:00 Intro
00:52 Stop Killing Games • What is it?
02:20 Stop Killing Games • Why now?
03:46 Stop Killing Games • What is it not?
04:52 Stop Killing Games • Why the EU matters
05:59 Live service • Ownership
07:43 Live service • Multiplayer
09:26 Live service • Gachas
10:19 Gacha players' perspective • Emotional investment
12:09 Gacha players' perspective • What would be left?
14:13 Developers' perspective
15:50 Conclusion
I'm always happy to talk Genshin, Wuthering Waves, and other games, streams 3pm UK every Wed/Sat/Sun
twitch.tv/saurusness
Genshin rotation app: genshin-rotation.com
Twitch: twitch.tv/saurusness
Merch: saurusness-shop.fourthwall.com
Twitter: twitter.com/saurusness
Discord: thatsaurus.com/discord
#stopkillinggames #piratesoftware #rossscott #genshinimpact #wutheringwaves
