stop killing games EU petition

[bob]

hello, this is to EU citizens


I’ll give context

it's called stop killing games, it’s a campaign going on right now that is trying to have laws on ownership for online games, so when you buy a game you should still keep it and have an offline mode when the servers are shut down, now currently there is a petition and it’s not a normal petition but a petition that if successful there will be talks in the EU commission for laws on this

if you want more details watch these videos

here the petition

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

eci.ec.europa.eu

 

[Seinekar]

100% suppoeting this, have been arpund for some time and already signed back then.

Not enough emphasis is ever put on how relevant this may be.

Classic Guild Wars, WoW, The Division, Diablo 2 Resurrected, Diablo 3/4...

More and more games are depending on online functionality and may be gone of they just lose it given time. And time always calls.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Yeah, I have been campaigning hard for this for months now.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to sign myself, but I have been directing lots of Europeans to it. Hope it's enough... we really need this to pass.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Just so you know... the threshold was reached on all seven required countries, and we are almost at 400K signatures.

This has slowed down considerably, though. But there's still hope.

 

[Clippy]

I signed Day 1, so I can't help on that front anymore. I remember lots of people being optimistic early on seeing how quickly we got to 50k but I was afraid that once the gamers who were already invested in Ross's cause and knew about the petition signed it things would slow down to a crawl and it looks like my fears came true.

A massive shame since this might be our last chance to get gaming back on track and failing here will have a rippling effect.

 

[Another Iori]

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[bobobobo]

I don't understand how videogames are different from software in general from the consumer rights point of view. Videogame industry simply inherits all the malpractices of software industry, and winning a fight like this for videogames only would be like winning food labeling for sweets only. Not that it wouldn't be good, but it just sounds bizarre to me. I also don't think trying to go mild on an initiative like this will work. You can't incrementally and gently improve the industry from outside, that would need to happen from the inside. From outside you can only sabotage and destroy it and there is no point in pulling punches in that game just go full software freedom zealot.