Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has weighed in on the Stop Killing Games initiative, and seems to have a complex opinion on the matter. This conversation arrives shortly before Gearbox launches Borderlands 4, and hits close to home for the company.
The Stop Killing Games Initiative followed the delisting of Ubisoft's The Crew, with concerns regarding game preservation and accessibility. The creator of the petition, Ross Scott, has pushed the initiative in the hopes of getting developers to change how games work as they approach the end of official support, by making those games playable on private or community servers instead of letting them become 100% unplayable. It's a movement that's drawn a lot of criticism and praise from different sides of the industry and among gamers, and now Pitchford has weighed in.
In a chat with The Gamer, Randy Pitchford talked about Stop Killing Games and shared conflicted thoughts. He explained that he's lost games he's enjoyed too, and admires the activism involved in trying to protect them. But he also added that "if we're going to have any games that are sincere live services, it seems mutually exclusive to have something that's going to be a living thing that...
