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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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft. (wccftech.com)

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[–] pezhore@infosec.pub 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes notch is a dick but on the upside, they're at 1.3M signatures!

https://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't follow Minecraft drama. Why's he a dick?

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Alt right bigot

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Gathered that after reading more of the comments. Thank you.

[–] pezhore@infosec.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson

Check out the personal life section.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago

FYI, you can link to a specific section of a Wikipedia article like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Personal_life