Stop Killing Games Joins Dutch Consumer Rights Lawsuit as Its Founder Talks About Its Mission in an Interview

Stop Killing Games backs Dutch consumer rights lawsuit against Sony's PlayStation digital store "monopoly" as it branches out beyond game preservation

Stop Killing Games, the grassroots initiative fighting to prevent game publishers from shutting down servers without offering an alternative, has joined a lawsuit filed in the Netherlands against Sony for its alleged monopoly of selling digital games on the PlayStation Store (via GamesRadar).

Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'

Sony's decision to stop selling physical disks for its games makes a certain kind of sense from a mercilessly realist point of view—I'd be a hypocrite if I, a person with the majority of my games on one platform (Steam), shook my fist and wept for the end of physical media. But aside from the sentimental concerns—which, honestly, I don't hold as any less important, there's more to life than money—there is a capitalist argument against the move, …

Stop Killing Games Backs Lawsuit Over Sony’s Digital PlayStation ‘Monopoly’

It’s a benefit to gamers to have a group devoted to protecting gamers’ rights and taking on gaming industry giants to attempt to improve treatment for consumers in the gaming world, but it’s also a sign of the tumultuous period gaming finds itself in that the group, Stop Killing Games, has had so much to do in recent months. Already battling in both the US and Europe to get consumer protections when it comes to gaming companies shutting down ser…

Stop Killing Games joins Dutch consumer rights lawsuit as its founder talks about its mission in an interview

You might recall last month when we reported on a lawsuit filed by a Dutch consumer rights group against Sony, which argued that Sony's decision to stop printing games on physical media was anti-consumer and anti-competitive. The suit now has a new ally in the form of the Stop Killing Games movement, which announced it would join [...]