A screenshot of a tweet stolen from reddit, as is lemmy tradition.
You can’t compel companies to keep a server up. It’s a silly request that was doomed from the start.
But you can make it legal for fans to host their own servers, regardless of the financial success of the game. If “Stop Killing Games” wants to actually achieve something, they should fight for legal protections for fan servers.
Publishers shouldn’t be able to issue Cease & Disists for fan self-hosted communities around games who’s dev’s they’ve shuttered. Hell, push it one step further, fans should be allowed to host their own servers even when the publisher is still maintaining their own.
TF2 is kinda the gold standard here. Why the hell can’t we have community servers for Elden Ring, or League of Legends?
The title of your post is correct, but the body is incorrect.
Stop Killing games are aiming for the wrong thing, but only because they are seeking solutions from capitalism that are caused by capitalism. The million other things that gamers complain about (or pretend to care about sometimes), like micro-transactions, DRM, rushed games, crunch time, and mass developer layoffs are all symptoms of the same root cause. They are seeking remediation completely in conflict with their entire society.