StopKillingGames - Yet another reminder for European citizens to fight for software ownership before the timer runs out. A signature takes mere minutes and preserves many games and lots of fun.
We just passed 100%, thanks everybody for signing the petition!
But why should we stop here? Keep it coming!
Holy shit, it's at 994,000, only 6000 votes left. It's going to succeed!
Already at 997,500, pretty sure it'll succeed within a couple of hours. Absolutely amazing to see this, so excited for the inevitable video from Ross!
Sign the petition even if it's surpassed 1mil signatures by the time you read this! The signatures will be verified after the petition is complete. This could lead to removal of any number of them. We don't want to barely make it. Let's go as high as possible!
Could someone give an example what this fighting?
Here is a real-time signature counter for the EU: https://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/
Can someone explain to me why Pirate Software has such a big problem with it, I tried to look it up and I'm still struggling to understand.
Without diving tooo much into it, I'm pretty sure the main reason is he doesn't want government regulation around the games industry.
The most generous summary of his better points would be that it is not always feasible to leave a game in a playable state since server architecture might not allow for that. Semi fair since the games industry has gotten to a point where some of these games may be using code contracted from a third party making releasing the binaries difficult from a licensing perspective.
However he seems to have taken playable as 'designed for single player'. Using the hypothetical of MMOs needing to be rebalanced around a single player experience. He extended this to a game Meet Your Maker which is reliant on other real players for the experience and saying there is no way to leave that 'playable.
As a note, Stop Killing Games is NOT asking for any rebalancing to be done and this is an entirely fabricated complaint.
You have to remember that it's not retroactive so it should only affect future games. The games at that point wouldn't have that issue because they would know not to do anything to make it extremely difficult if not impossible to release a server or something. So even that point of his is pretty dumb.
He has multiple conflicts of interest and is taking the side of his wallet and not consumers.
He thinks the initiative's goal isn't clear and passing a law based on an unclear direction would effectively kill all live service games.
The problem is, reason behind making a law about it is clarifying how to approach this problem in the first place.
It's on a good roll now. People should go and sign!