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Stop Killing Games

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.


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EU Final Day: 31/7/2025.


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WE DID IT!!! (mastodon.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by drq@mastodon.ml to c/skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

WE DID IT!!!

Just a mere week ago this movement was about to fail miserably.

Seven days and one youtube drama later, you folks proceeded to completely wipe out the European petition and rip a UK petetion a new one.

This is historic. We're making history right now.

This doesn't automatically mean we've won, mind you. It just means that we're just starting to fight back. There's a long road ahead.

Also, reaching the million doesn't mean we have to stop signing. A good chunk of these signatures is going to be invalidated, because bureaucracy. This is a government petition, and they'll have to check the signatures. There's bound to be some mistakes and screwups in the validation process. We should know better than anyone that there's no kill like overkill. So any additional signatures are not just surplus - they go into fireproofing that thing.

@skg

P.S. 2 piratesoftware and the likes: die mad you salty bitch.

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[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago
[–] duckz@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] drq@mastodon.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

@duckz A two-bit "influencer" in opposition of this initiative.

@skg