Stop Killing Games - EU Initiative petition

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

Hello fellow EU Citizens and Gamers!

Today I share with you a noble cause that can change gaming forever for the better.

If you are like me and have some favorite game from the 2000s that you still sometimes grab off your shelf and boot up for nostalgia, you probably also slowly getting familiar with the feeling of having a game you purchased becoming completely unrunnable/uninstallable ( Like how none of us was asked if we would like to have our accounts transferred from Overwatch1 to Overwatch2 )

The “STOP KILLING GAMES” movement has launched an EU petition that if reaches its goal will make EU parliement members officially address this dangerously spreading anti-consumer business practice.

In short the main goal of the petition is:

  • To obligate publishers and developers that SELL a videogame in the EU to leave those games in a working state once they decide to seize support and sale for it.
  • To preserve art and reduce the number of future LOST MEDIA. Videogames are full of 2Dart , 3D art, voice-acting, motion-capturing and many more forms of art that if a game becomes decommissioned and unplayable are completely lost forever for future generations.
  • To obligate publishers to either provide offline-playibility to games that have significant single-player content, or provide the necessary tools for people to host their own private servers instead of the public ones they need to shut down due to costs.

To understand further this petition doesn’t aim to:

  • Force publishers or developers to keep servers up and running even when a game is not profitable.

In other words they wish to make sure that we OWN the games that we purchase. That if you buy a Videogame either PC, PS5 or Xbox, the game inside that box, on that disk, remains a functional piece of media even after the publisher decides to cut support for it.

If you agree with this cause, please consider signing this petition, it only takes a minute and they already have 20% of the necessary 1 million signatures in just 9 days.

Thank you for your time and have a nice day everyone

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

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And who’s gonna maintain the servers when the game becomes non profitable?
The companies should not be forced to keep the servers active if the game is not bringing profits anymore.

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If publishers need to seize support for a game and shut down the official servers, the initiative only asks that these publishers provide the necessary tools or code that supports the creation of private servers (that are paid by fans and use third-party hosting services). There are many old games that have privately paid servers with active players to this day like Call Of Duty 2.

The point is not to keep the games alive for free. Many private servers run on donations from die-hard fans of those games. The goal is to make that a possibility as a form or art-preservation, because many modern games have hard-coded locks that prevent private servers from communicating with the game, or are so complex that it takes die-hard fans months or years to reverse-engineer the server structure

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This is a brilliant initiative - I wholeheartedly support it and actually I’d sign as well but Brexit!

#BBOW1

:pouting_cat: :+1:

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Yesss! #BBOW1 :smirk_cat:

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signed, also mods deleted this topic in US forums. Ha, damage control.

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Yeah, just woke up and saw it, its insane. It violated not a single policy yet they say it did.

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That’s sadly how things seem to work around here…

:pouting_cat: :point_up_2:

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We will never stop fighting for what we believe in! We will never be silenced! :pouting_cat:

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