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Stop Killing Games

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[EU/UK] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from 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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UK Final Day 14/7/2025

EU Final Day: 31/7/2025.


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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What's Andorra's percentage?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Neither is the UK, but that's got a percentage

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jealously eyeing Finland's >400%. Finns are cool.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Watch us hit 500 before the deadline.

Finnish gamers go brrrrrr

Yeah I hear it's cold out there, that makes sense

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Well that changed rapidly. Well done, and keep it up! :)

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

It must be nice to live in a country where it's possible to get the government to legislate for the benefit of the people, not just corporations. The US should try democracy sometime.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Somebody should probably be looking at finding any kind of local gaming or gaming adjacent influencers in Luxembourg, Cyprus and Malta, who is ideally either a native resident or has lived there long enough to speak at least one of the local languages fluently.

EDIT: Or possibly I am a silly billy, and its not that literally every EU member state has to hit its own threshold.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Since most of Europe is above 100%, how is the total number of petitions at 98%? How does that work?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

7 Countries need to meet the 100% threshold for the petition to be valid which has already happened. We didn't have enough signatures 25 minutes ago for it to be 1m.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, I thought every single country had to, which seemed very harsh.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

The threshold per country is different from the total threshold.