He believes the Stop Killing Games initiative is a reasonable effort to start a conversation about consumer rights and the ability to keep playing purchased games.

“Stop destroying things that people have paid money to own. I think that is a very understandable, very reasonable take. Very agreeable.”

Jason Portal advocates for mandates requiring game publishers to provide end-of-life plans to ensure games remain playable after servers shut down.

“The stop healing games movement is looking to advocate on behalf of consumers in order to mandate that game publishers and game developers have some sort of endof life plan for games such that they can continue to be played after the developer would like to stop supporting them.”

He argues that marketing live service games as permanent products while hiding terms of service is a bad business practice that should be reformed.

“In the case that a studio is making a live service game and they sell it to you as a product, they say that you are purchasing the game or you are buying the game when in reality you're actually purchasing or buying a license to that game. I think that we should be fighting about that.”

The financialization of the gaming industry through mergers and the focus on live services and loot boxes is responsible for the decline in game quality, not the inclusion of diverse characters.

“this financialization of the gaming industry is obviously going to take away some of the Beloved projects that might have even started off in a in a really interesting way but that is now unfolded into the codification the FIFA ification of all gaming”