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Stop Killing Games
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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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Europe has pretty good consumer protection laws, but software EULAs and online requirements mean that games are no longer accessible when the publisher stops supporting them
One of the mechanisms for raising the issue to EU lawmaker attention is a petition with specific participant requirements: 1M signatures across the EU, with at least x countries achieving x% of their population
There has been a big uptick in signatures as the deadline approaches