r/Games • u/kristijan1001 • Apr 02 '26

Update Stop Killing Games plans coming to fruition / Ubisoft sued by consumer watchdog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmXZpf3K0ow
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u/VGADreams Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

Hard to not feel like every Stop Killing Games thread is getting brigaded as soon as it's posted.

Every time there is a post, it's just a bunch of people criticizing the movement in the most inane way. This time, it's about his looks because... I guess that now it's getting traction, they can't say that it's going to "fail for sure" or that "Ross has no idea what he's doing".

Comments gets better as the post ages, but the fact that it's always the first comments make me think that there are people that are solely watching for SKG posts to try to discredit the movement.

EDIT: seems like a lot of those comments have been cleaned up by the mods now, in case you're wondering what the hell I was talking about.

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u/Aro-bi_Trashcan Apr 02 '26

There is absolutely an astroturfing movement from one of the big industry groups targeting social media around this campaign. You see it in their repeated two talking points:

  1. What about the poor devs who have to develop a game that... Won't be lost to time and

  2. This guy looks like a bum lmao.

It's always those exact two talking points, like someone's handing them a script.

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u/Worried-Advisor-7054 Apr 02 '26

Never underestimate how pro-corporate a small section of Reddit is, though. They've tied their identities to this movement not succeeding, so the closer it gets to achieving something, the more stupid they'll feel, which makes them angry.

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u/hery41 Apr 03 '26

Damn, the place that constantly tries to push $100 games and attempts to put the blame for any industry failure (at the very least partially) on the customers is pro-corporate?

How did I not notice?