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Stop Killing Games

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[EU/UK] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.


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UK Final Day 14/7/2025

EU Final Day: 31/7/2025.


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@skg We're doing this, man! We're making this happen!

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago

Just reading about past ECIs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens%27_Initiative#One_of_Us

There was an anti abortion one

The lawsuit remained unsuccessful before the General Court [...], handing to the European Commission a de facto veto right against any European Citizens' Initiative it does not wish to support.

This is an unfortunate precedent