The EU petition ‘Stop Destroying Videogames’ sits at 430k signatures out of 1 million! The deadline is 2025-07-31. If passed and implemented, publishers will be forced to leave games in a playable state once they shut them down/are abandoned. Fellow gamers, share with your family and friends!
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This is cringe.
Hell yah! Sign it! Generally what becomes a requirement for how games are made in one continent becomes the standard across the board.
“publishers will be forced” by what organization?
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Not this shit still… Same gamers who sign this petition are buying the disc free consoles just because they are cheaper, and nobody lashed out on the Switch 2 game-key carts news.
You vote with your wallets, as always.
Sadly most of the time this does nothing. As seen on most of all their “past actions” page. I couldn’t find the page specifically about the eu but I feel like a few months ago they lost there petition as in it was denied didn’t pass anything but I can’t find the info on that.
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/pastactions
Implemented by who?
Wow 430k people really want to play concord I guess
The obvious loophole is called out in the OP – if a developer is allowed to leave a market without conforming to this law, that’s what they will do.
In other words, if Blizzard wants to shut down World of Warcraft, they will just “leave “ the EU market first but leave it running in other markets before shutting it down completely later.
Fellow gamers rise up and ensure no online games ever exist ever again because no company can afford thousands to keep a dead game online for 2 players.
Rip EU gamers as usual. Screwed again.
So if a studio shuts down, who is paying to keep the servers on?
This doesn’t seem to make much sense.
Petitions do nothing.
That’s a very good petition, but will it make any difference? I don’t want to discourage anyone from signing, I already did myself months ago. I just wonder in the eyes of politicians if this seems legit, because I assume it would be easy to bot it in order to increase the numbers.
Pretty sweet. I’m in the US so I can’t contribute unfortunately but I really hope this continues to gain momentum.