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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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Ross is targeting 1.4M or more signatures, keep recruiting for more signatures until the end of July. (1.4M stretch Goal reached!)

Direct Link to Initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A 16% error rate in signatures would seem unusual to me but there's nothing wrong with more people becoming aware of our cause and more Europeans signing onto the initiative.

[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would point out that this is quite an unusual situation for a petition, its gotten international attention, and alot of non europeans are wanting this, so best be on the safe side.

Plus a lot of trolls on 4Chan added fake signatures

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Malta, Cyrprus and Luxembourg must be under a rock. None of those countries have passed their threshold.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

Keep in mind the base minimum threshold is 4230 per country smaller than a certain size.

So currently as a percentage of total population, more Maltans have signed than Germans, despite them not passing the threshold yet. I wouldn't consider them uninformed.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's okay, they're all just busy

Malta is currently occupied with tax fraud, Cyprus with Greeks and Turks infighting and Luxembourgh by Germans

[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We should totally expand this to more online software like Google keep and Spotify.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Now it is past 1.3M!