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KEEP SIGNING EVEN AFTER THE THRESHOLD HAS BEEN REACHED!
Signatures will be checked and, historically, 10% to 20% of signatures have been invalidated.
So we need to get at least 1.3 million signatures to be completely safe.
KEEP SHARING!
Either stopkillinggames.com has crashed...
Or the counter has exceeded its max possible value.
UPDATE:
We've done it.
Don't stop signing up!
Get these damn numbers as high as they can go!
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Fuck July 4th.
Gamers....
This is our independence day.
I went to sign and it told me I already signed. I did it like one year ago
We in overdrive, baby!
An important reminder that if this can be enacted into law, there is a chance it would not only apply to games but also at some point maybe to all software that does not require a server to operate most basic functions (ie. looking at you adobe)
Sign it, and get your friends and family to sign it because the proposal is pretty common sense: if you buy something, you should own it.
Another reminder that if enacted, in practice this is not only for Europeans.
If games have to be reasonably playable in Europe then they will be reasonably playable everywhere.
This benefits all consumers one way or another.
More importantly though, for everything, like the comment I'm replying to mentions: If you buy something you should own it.
You don’t need any ID to sign it, so you can sign it on their behalf if they give you verbal permission.
Personally hoping this opens the door to discussing planned obsolescence in the digital realm as a whole, from games to software. It's corporate wild west over here.
Sign it, and get your friends and family to sign it because the proposal is pretty common sense: if you buy something, you should own it.
ESPECIALLY when it's advertised as ownership and not a rental service.
yayy! nearly there
Given the impressive increase in signing rate, I'm a bit afraid it'll turn out to have been tampered with
FOMO, popularity and trending algorithms are powerful forces.
Yes, that's why it's important to gather more than 1 million signatures. At least 1.3 million to be on the safe side.
At the end of the collection, all invalid signatures will be deducted from the total.
So now it's more important than ever to keep sharing and signing.
Big youtubers like Jacksep are also promoting the partition
I'm also afraid of this
99% !!!
Remember everyone, 1 million is a MINIMUM goal. Keep signing afterwards if/when we reach the milestone, as some signatures can be declared invalid due to errors like wrong spelling, so we need every single person we can get in the EU to sign this!
UK petition has less than 5k to go!
WTF! How did it hit target already? Hope there wasn't any bot farming involved...
Otherwise, pleasantly surprised!
Don't think it's bot farming. There's a lot of muscle being thrown around and it's trending.
100k left
Glad to be proven wrong on this. I’m not very confident at the EU will act (the UK already said in February they are not going to) BUT hopefully this can at least get some grass roots momentum going and they can turn this petition initiative into something sustainable for the long-term
Let's say you're company x budgeting y millions to make a game, after this passes, you may want to account for the fact that the EU may legislate the issue in the years it takes you to develop your game. Might as well work on compliance in advance.
Yeah, wishful thinking, I know.
That only works if the EU signals that they are taking this into serious consideration, which I don’t really think they will, but I want to be very clear that I don’t think the effort is therefore fruitless. I just hope people understand that this petition doesn’t even count as a start lol. We have to build off of this or it just fizzles out.
At this point the petition works best as an organizing force if you ask me. Gets people informed and hopefully involved
I will be so pissed if this gets 1 million signatures and they just hand-wave it away, which is entirely possible, but it's still worth signing this anyway.
That is by far and away the most likely outcome but still, people should sign it and follow the initiative as it moves forward with other plans
Well the UK said they have no plans but now they have to actually debate it in Parliament. So it's better than nothing - at least the proposal gets a chance to be heard.
EU has done some legislation on microtransactions, the most recent one being mandatory real-life currency price tags instead of the in-game currency ones.
It could be seen as a gambling issue rather than digital ownership, but it at least means they pay attention to video games.
Predatory corporate practices that are pissing off parents as they harm children are a lot easier than “video games are art and should be preserved,” unfortunately
But we got a lot of consumer protection going on and a right to repair movement. For instance phone batteries will have to be easily replaceable again starting in 26 or 27, can't remember. None of that has anything to do with protecting the children and it still all passed. Video games are already recognized as art btw. All we need now is consumer protection for digital products, it's extremely lacking in that department.
Shared the link. Hope you guys get the numbers you need 🙏🏽
Let's gooooooooo!!!!!!!!
Do I have to be a citizen of the EU or just live there? I'm going to be moving to Sweden soon but won't be a citizen for a long while still
Citizens only I'm afraid. You can still help though by spreading this around, if any of your friends are EU citizens they can help.