CALLING ALL EUROPEANS:Have YOU signed for the Stop Killing Games petition today?

[Corrupted Unicorn]

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Uhhh I'm not very good at explaining what this is, it's essentially an initiative to stop the worst parts of games as a service and most importantly, companies destroying games after they decide to stop supporting them (as happens with the aforementioned games as a service)... by law.

It's been kickstarted by Ross Scott, creator of the machinima Freeman's Mind and the Youtube game review series Ross's Game Dungeon. He's got several videos explaining the topic and how the initiative came to be.

I'll put the shortest one here but I recommend checking his other videos if you have any questions. He'll answer them better than I do.

I'd really like to give this a boost as much as I can, I'm not in social medias other than Neocities But I'd like to spread awareness: ergo, this forum topic, as a start. I was also making a little button thingy for websites but I'm not sure if it's looking good:



If you're the EU, I strongly encourage you to sign the petition (the site has instructions on how to) and to spread the word to fellow gamers and europeans, and european gamers  We can also use this topic to discuss what more can be done. This is one of those things where people need to team up to make things happen 

[crazyroostereye]

I already have signed it last year.

While everything is unclear, as it is and Initiatve, we have to get the Legel bodys talking about it.

 

So if you Like Games and are in the EU, please Sign

[BlazingCobaltX]

I have signed it, but from what I understand the petition has already passed threshold in my country. There are some specific countries that need to still pass the threshold for this petition to be considered by the EU. I don't remember where I saw this list.

[crazyroostereye]

@BlazingCobaltX
As far as I read it, it already reached the Country Threshold (which is 7), it only needs to meet the people Threshold now. So whatever EU Country you are from, we need you Signature.

Threshold: To be successful, a European citizens' initiative has to reach one million statements of support as well as minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries.

From right bellow the Map on the EU initiatives Page.

[BlazingCobaltX]

@BlazingCobaltX
As far as I read it, it already reached the Country Threshold (which is 7), it only needs to meet the people Threshold now. So whatever EU Country you are from, we need you Signature.
From right bellow the Map on the EU initiatives Page.

Ohh I see. Frankly this is the first time such an initiative has been brought to my attention and it exposed to me how little I know of the EU legislative process. Then again it's probably rare that an initiative even gets enough traction in the first place.

[crazyroostereye]

Ohh I see. Frankly this is the first time such an initiative has been brought to my attention and it exposed to me how little I know of the EU legislative process. Then again it's probably rare that an initiative even gets enough traction in the first place.

For me too, I had to look it up myself, as I vaguely remember such a rule there. These Initiatives as it looks don't get that far most of the Time. But not surprising given the Amount of Signatures from so many Places you have to get.

[Corrupted Unicorn]

Lil update: turns out I had a blinkie laying around too!



Feel free to share around.

I hate good causes like these go down. At least, I think I did my part. I wonder if I should post fliers around my town to spread awareness, tho, I've never done something like that before 

[Corrupted Unicorn]

Bringing this topic back from the underworld that is any forum page that is not the first page, because we have one month left and 60% of signatures!

Still quite a lot to go but the pace has been picked up again!  Tell your friends and communities!  Don't let any European buddy ignore there's a campaign for better consumer rights in the game industry!

Here's a link to track Stop Killing Games' progress!