Kill All Games!!!
You reap what you sow.
Remember...This list is far from exhaustive...
- When it wasn't a coin flip if the PC port would run even tolerably?
- When games didn't require their own company's launcher application nobody asked for? Even if you already bought it through another storefront?
- When you could unlock cosmetics and gear through actual in-game progression instead of paying real money?
- Proper expansion packs instead of DLC and micro-transactions?
- Non-intrusive DRM that didn't install rootkits on your PC and/or tank performance?
- When basic gameplay features weren't locked behind paywalls?
- When games were released as finished (or at the very least functional) products?
Companies have been trickling these obnoxious practises down for years, slowly conditioning everybody. Younger generations are to be unaware of how much better it used to be. These studios do what they do because we enable them to! Take a look at this snippet of Wikipedia's List of video games considered the best article:
So many classics!
Now let's scroll down a bit:
Some real blockbusters in 2021, 2023 and 2024! As of writing this we're already about halfway into 2024! Very cool! I love the studio mentality whittling everything down into utter junk!
2021 was during the pandemic so I'll let that one pass...
If you bought a game like The Crew: the reality is that you paid for a disposable product they have the right to take away from you at any time. You never owned it to begin with. Make a more informed purchasing decision next time. If you buy another Ubisoft product after that, you're a big sucker. When I say "Kill All Games" - I mean let all that disposable crap die as it was designed to in the first place.
Your government won't help you.
The last thing we need is government regulation/meddling ruining games further.
Just stop buying this anti-consumer corporate slop! Get your entertainment elsewhere. Instead play a classic game or one by a smaller studio that actually cares about games! I'm sure you've got some stuff on your backlog waiting to be played too.
Your favorite classic game was delisted from online stores? The Internet Archive and My Abandonware are great resources. Don't let what is and is not on some storefront dictate what you can and cannot play. For example: the classic PC shooter Unreal Tournament is very much alive despite Epic delisting it.
This site does not collect any metrics or run any scripts. It was thrown together in response to the video game industry being in a lousy state and that "Stop Killing Games" movement which I view as thinly veiled political agenda.
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