cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28425976
Sign here to support the EU's "STOP destroying videogames"
This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.
Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.
The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state.
Sometimes they still look at a petition even if it didn't reach the threshold. At least that has been the case for German petitions.
In the end they still get ignored, whether they reached the threshold or not.
I mean, not even 500k people in the whole of EU care about this apparently, so we get what we deserve, I guess.
That's a bit reductive. Perhaps plenty care but don't know to even look for this thing to sign, or are too young to know how games used to be made, or didn't get the message about this petition in their own language. 1M signatures is an absurdly high threshold to clear; that's one out of every 450 people in the EU.
I think that reframing it in the context of consumer protection for digital planned obsolescence might benefit this campaign. Ultimately, this is bigger than games and I think it could benefit from a broader appeal