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Stop Killing Games

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:


The consumer movement to stop game publishers from disabling older games with kill switches after official support ends.


The goal is to reach 1 million signatures so that the european parliament will respond to the petition that then leads to game ownership protections enacted for consumers.


Petition

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Discord

List of Actions taken


Progress Tracker:

Progress Bars

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Final Day: 31/7/2025.


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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Out of the loop: what are you speaking about ?

[–] Sunshine 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the weekly progress report on the petition asking the European Union to regulate that games be left in a playable state in their final patch including releasing the server binary for multiplayer games. This is spurred on the fact when the servers shut down for the Crew 2014, the players who owned the game were no longer able to play the single player aspect as it required an online connection to do so.

The petition needs 1 million signatures to have the bloc assembly respond:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the quick and super clear answer. I did my share. I will see over the weekend to share it to the french community.

[–] Sunshine 4 points 2 months ago

Thank you for supporting the petition ❤️

[–] Sunshine 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The campaign needs more of a boost in the marathon.

Some people say that petitions "dont work" but then if that was true why would the oponents such as Pirate Software Games feel the need to attack the initiative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Pirate Software is an egocentrical dick for attacking the petition. He won't do a damn thing but complain about it. "Wake me up when a better petition comes along". Dickhead.