European Gaming Industry Lobby responded.. | Asmongold TV

In a recent episode of Asmongold TV, the host and his co-host react to a statement from Video Games Europe, the industry's lobbying group, which came out against the "Stop Killing Games" European Citizens Initiative. The central thesis of the episode is a direct confrontation with the industry's position: consumer ownership of purchased products should supersede corporate intellectual property claims, and the only way to enforce this is through regulation, not by appealing to the goodwill of publishers.

The hosts begin by reading the lobbying group's statement, which argues that discontinuing online services is a "multifaceted" decision that "must be an option for companies when an online experience is no longer commercially viable." The immediate response is that this misses the point entirely. The "Stop Killing Games" initiative does not demand that companies run servers forever. Instead, it asks that when a publisher stops supporting a game, they allow other parties—or the players themselves—to provide the necessary online services. The hosts frame this as a deliberate misrepresentation of the petition's goal. "Nobody says that you have to run the server forever," one says. "They're twisting it again."