{"id":23578,"date":"2026-06-19T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/they-kill-games-we-fight-back-the-activists-campaigning-to-keep-video-games-playable\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:37:15","slug":"they-kill-games-we-fight-back-the-activists-campaigning-to-keep-video-games-playable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/they-kill-games-we-fight-back-the-activists-campaigning-to-keep-video-games-playable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They kill games, we fight back\u2019: the activists campaigning to keep video games playable"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a company decided to shut down an online game\u2019s servers, there wasn\u2019t much the players who had bought that title could do \u2013 until a group called Stop Killing Games began lobbying for new consumer protection laws<\/p>\n

You can never be sure how long an online video game will last. Developer BioWare shut off sci-fi shooter Anthem\u2019s servers in January, after seven years. Electronic Arts discontinued access to The Sims Mobile the same month. Wildlight Entertainment shuttered its Highguard servers in March, mere months after the game\u2019s release. Activision Blizzard took Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile offline in April. Dozens more<\/a> games have had their servers shut down in the first six months of 2026, adding to an already long list of video games that are no longer playable.<\/p>\n

There is little that players can do when a company decides to stop supporting online play. Communities work hard to keep their favourite games online, sometimes keeping dead games running on private servers<\/a>, though that may not necessarily be entirely legal. Generally, though, when a game goes offline it is dead and it\u2019s not coming back.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen a company decided to shut down an online game\u2019s servers, there wasn\u2019t much the players who had bought that title could do \u2013 until a group called Stop Killing Games began lobbying for new consumer protection laws
\nYou can never be sure how long an online video game will last. Developer BioWare shut off sci-fi shooter Anthem\u2019s servers in January, after seven years. Electronic Arts discontinued access to The Sims Mobile the same month. Wildlight Entertainment shuttered its Highguard servers in March, mere months after the game\u2019s release. Activision Blizzard took Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile offline in April. Dozens more games have had their servers shut down in the first six months of 2026, adding to an already long list of video games that are no longer playable.
\nThere is little that players can do when a company decides to stop supporting online play. Communities work hard to keep their favourite games online, sometimes keeping dead games running on private servers, though that may not necessarily be entirely legal. Generally, though, when a game goes offline it is dead and it\u2019s not coming back. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a company decided to shut down an online game\u2019s servers, there wasn\u2019t much the players who had bought that title could do \u2013 until a group called Stop Killing Games began lobbying for new consumer protection laws You can never be sure how long an online video game will last. Developer BioWare shut off …<\/p>\n

\u2018They kill games, we fight back\u2019: the activists campaigning to keep video games playable<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}