Stop Killing Games

Hello all,

Some of you may be aware but I believe many are not. There is for some time ongoing a petition towards the EU and UK governments called “Stop Killing Games”.

This movement was started in regards of game preservation and malicious practices of publishers.

Objectives

This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.

Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.

The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state.

In simple term, the main points of these petition is to standardize game preservation. Basically to make publishers preserve their game in a workable state.


Example;
Games like Crew or any other games that have Single player often rely on always online component. When its online competent is removed e.g publisher decides to close down the servers the single player stops working as well. This doesn’t give any sense from perspective of the customer ~ gamers.

Games are not being sold as products but as services, which is inherently flawed and bad for game preservation.

More about this in detail


There are currently two petitions running for EU and UK. These will end in a month.

Thus I would like to raise awareness, if you are a citizen of EU or UK consider to sign the petition. IT will give law makers the precedence or at least initialization to standardize game preservation as such.

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

Link to UK Government Petition:

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Nice one Seimus. I signed it :wink:

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Awesome! Many thanks!

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No Problem i also will share it around because i know many dead games and we payed for them to this time a lot of money it isnt fair for the Customers =)
Gaming for Gaming not profit on all shit. I hate also the ingame shops its like gambling system .

Have fun at Games :wink:

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Thanks for sharing it around!

Actually since yesterday there is been a momentum, it went like under 24h up by 60k signatures.

Signed! …and I’m also going to pass it on to as many groups of friends as I can and on social networks.

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Many thanks!

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We are close to 650K!

Oh boy, I wish we hit the 1M, we already fulfilled the minimum thresholds in at least seven countries.

350K signatures to go!!!

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I bought a PS5 with disk drive so I can buy real games. Own something physical.

You know, many of those disks be it PS5 or Nintendo don’t often even have the full game on them? Just the install exec?

But this petition is not about this. A lot of games even if single player often need a online competent to even work. And this is a major hurdle.

Its overall about that it doesn’t matter on what medium you own it, you should own it and be able to play it 30y from now.

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800K+ reached!!!

200k to go

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900K+ reached!!!

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Both petitions EU as well UK reached its targeted goal and!
Are still increasing which is only good!


End of Jul is still far away, so having more than the minimum required always good in such a thing.

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1.2 million! I apparently already signed this petition when it was new, so I got an error message when I tried to sign it a few days ago. Still, better keep going!

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Nice i talked to my gaming friends to do again for get sure its accepted :wink:

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