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You truly believe piratesoftware is the only reason a million Europeans didn't sign a petition on game preservation? You truly believe, if not for him, the EU would have passed legislation to regulate the video games industry. You might as well be mad at Gawr Gura for increasing the price of rice in Japan.
He spawned a bunch of misinformation that people are repeating to this day every time the petition is mentioned. He was by far the largest negative influence on the campaign. Even if it was always doomed to fail, who would you have OP clown on if not him?
Truth is that most people don’t really care about this. Game preservation is niche. This petition failed because there isn’t enough interest.
The type of people that would watch videos about this are also the type of people that are already invested in this topic. People that didn’t sign the petition are people that don’t even know, or care, about this.
That said, piratesoftware did misrepresent the movement, and I’ll take that into account if someday one of his videos pops up in my feed
Everyone is too busy getting in their "Pirate Software bad" to actually give a shit about the Initiative.
Can anyone name someone of consequence from the EU that has talked about SGK? I genuinely want to know. SKG is a good thing that seemingly only people in the US and Canada seem to care to rally their audiences for.
When will Gawr Gura address these allegations?
I only learned of the petition, because of the backlash to piratesoftware. Which obviously means if it succeeds it's due to them!
Maybe that was the plan all along! 4D chess over there.