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Sunshine (she/her)@lemm.eeM to Stop Killing Games@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 month ago

The 'Stop Killing Videogames' EU petition sits at 427k signatures out of 1m. The deadline to sign is 2025-07-31! If it is passed, game publishers will be forced to leave games in an playable state.

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The 'Stop Killing Videogames' EU petition sits at 427k signatures out of 1m. The deadline to sign is 2025-07-31! If it is passed, game publishers will be forced to leave games in an playable state.

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    If this is passed, the EU parlament will be forced to look into it and debate about it.
    No conclusions are guaranteed, but it would make sense that EU recognises this as an illegal practice and passes some regulation to prevent it.

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from destroying 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.


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