07 July 2025

Stop Killing Games - Feasible?

AAA Devs on Stop Killing Games

Repeatedly, I hear AAA developers argue that it is an expensive and infeasible amount of work, as seen in the recent response of Video Games Europe.[VGE25] While I have my own thoughts and beliefs on their overall response, I want to focus on the idea of it being expensive and infeasible. However, I haven't worked in AAA. I am an Informatics: Games Engineering student. Any defense I bring up out of my knowledge and experience might be written off as naivety or inexperience. So instead, I'm gonna make an assumption, a hypothesis. This assumption is: "If it is infeasible and expensive, then no one would be able to do it." Thus, we won't be able to find examples of games that handled sunset or have sunset plans that comply with the Stop Killing Game initiative despite being affected by the changes.

Are There Games That Comply?

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how it complies

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Last Update: 6.7.2025
(Disclaimer: Stop Killing Games does not intend and can't apply retroactively. These are examples to prove the point of feasibility.)



[VGE25] Video Games Europe. Statements on Stop Killing Games, 2025, https://www.videogameseurope.eu/news/statement-on-stop-killing-games/ (Accessed: 06.07.2025)
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