It’s available as an official European Citizens’ Initiative Proposal.
Deadline: 31/07/2025
Takes less than a minute to fill out. If you’re a citizen of the EU, please take a few seconds and sign this.
The "Stop Killing Games" EU Petition is Live
Submitted 2 months ago by Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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bread@feddit.nl 2 months ago
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Kangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I would love to sign this but I’m in the UK. I’ll spread the word instead!
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please do! We need as many eyes on this as possible.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is that page broken or something? I can’t do anything.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are some technical issues with the whole portal, can’t open any other initiatives either.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Already signed it. Took about two seconds thanks to eID.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same, and same!
amanda@aggregatet.org 2 months ago
I had the exact opposite experience! I went through a lengthy process of signing up for and activating the weird nonstandard eID that most places don’t accept over the normal one I already have and use for everything, the only one they supported, only to be told I can’t use it without manually contacting the company, have them invalidate my activation and then go into some office to get manually re-activated.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
As with everything in the EU, eId needs to be implemented separately by 27 member states and some states do it better than others. I am just lucky to live in a state that does e-government quite well all things considered.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Yeah it was very easy actually. Though fair warning to people who are sensitive to flashing lights: after logging in with DigiD my screen went full strobe mode. Looked like multiple pages loading in quick succession with different background colours before finally landing on the success screen.