Remember to keep signing the petition even after it gets 1 million! Every single signature over 1 million makes it that much more likely to actually get accepted!
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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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.
Progress Tracker:
UK Final Day 14/7/2025
EU Final Day: 31/7/2025.
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Worth adding that this is because the validation process may disqualify some signatures, dropping the total below a million.
If we get a million legitimate signatures, the EU comission is not allowed to simply reject the initiative.
Thanks! I was actually just about to come back and edit it to include that lol.
Ok ok, I'll sign again.
No not like that!
Bad!
spritzes with water
95% now. Back of the envelope says around 4 hours to go at the current rate of signing so 15:30 in Central Europe / 14:30 UK and Ireland, give or take.
I'll be in the middle of watching 28 years later \o/
The number keeps climbing even though it's late at night over there! I expect it might slow a bit over the next few hours, but at this rate, we'll beat it before 11:59pm CEST!
50k more to the goal!
Edit: goal reached before 5:45PM CEST!
Great to see some good news.
Ironically, this latest push is mostly due to Piratesoftware being his usual self.
Wow this is incredible!