The initiative “Stop Killing Games” was heard in the EU Parliament and thus likely contributed to an important update for the game The Crew 2 by Ubisoft.
How did gamers exert pressure? In 2025, the citizens’ initiative Stop Killing Games
was initiated by the YouTuber Scott Ross alias “Accursed Farms”. The initiative demanded that publishers must offer their games in a playable state even when the work on the game is stopped.
Almost 1.3 million signatures were collected from EU citizens, among others with the help of various content creators, so the European Parliament had to listen to the demand.
In February 2026, YouTubers Scott Ross and Josh Strife spoke with members of the EU Parliament in Brussels. However, this conversation was apparently only meant to raise awareness of the problem and the importance of this initiative. There were no concrete results so far. However, there was some movement at Ubisoft that might be linked to the initiative.
New update listens to the players
What kind of game is Ubisoft bringing back? Recently, Ubisoft announced the Hybrid Mode
for the games The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest. On X, they stated that they listened to player feedback
, as this is an offline mode for the games.
Thus, the games are now fully playable offline. Vehicle designs can be created, used, and saved from the online library offline. Statistics of players and vehicles are also stored and updated in the offline profile.
The Crew 2 thus avoids the fate of its predecessor The Crew, which was more or less discontinued by Ubisoft. The publisher did not want to maintain the servers any longer for cost reasons, and the game was not accessible to players offline.
What does this have to do with Stop Killing Games? The initiative attributes this X success
to itself, and Scott Ross speaks in a video segment. According to him, Ubisoft only acted under pressure because they feared that the citizens’ initiative might succeed and could have consequences for them.
Furthermore, Scott Ross is confident that Ubisoft had no plans to introduce an offline mode in the games before. He claims to have received this information from an insider. However, this is not substantiated.
It remains to be seen how the initiative and other games that would have to adapt to this new regulation will proceed.
The initiative was not always as strong and confident as it is at the moment. There were also some content creators who opposed the goal: Twitch streamer must be held accountable for wanting to destroy games – adds even more
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