Ross Scott—also known as Accursed Farms on YouTube—has been a vocal advocate for game preservation over the past year. His efforts gained traction after the announcement that Ubisoft’s The Crew would be shutting down, leading to his launch of the Stop Killing Games initiative.

As mentioned in a recent YouTube video, it has been a challenging journey, now heading toward a pivotal deadline for signatures. With the UK petition ending on July 14 and the EU Citizens’ Initiative wrapping up just before, Scott hopes to rally enough support to continue the fight against game obsolescence.

He expresses concern over the normalization of game removals by companies, stating, “Companies just started taking away your purchases, nobody stopped them, and it slowly got normalized.” Scott’s frustration is palpable as he prepares to step back if the initiative does not meet its goals, saying, “If we had rolled up with 1 million signatures … that would’ve been the easy way out for regulators, because then they would have a mandate.”

This initiative emphasizes the precarious state of video game ownership and aims to bring awareness to the importance of preserving digital games for future generations.

For more information on signing the petition, you can visit Stop Killing Games.