#StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Vittelius@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

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This is your somewhat regularly scheduled Stop Killing Games update.

Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it.

Germany has hit the threshold sometime yesterday evening. France has also started to catch up. They are still below 50% but there growth over the last couple of days has been the biggest. France and Denmark are still in the low 90s.

The milestone comes on the eve of this years Gamescom in Cologne, Germany which is set to kick off today. SKG is not going to have an official presence there. (I’ve checked with the organisers) But if you are attending and want to help spread the word I’m happy to share official marketing material, either in the form of flyers or the files for flyers, so you can print your own. They come in both German and English. If you want some, send me a DM.

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Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you are an EU citizen and agree with the initiative: GO VOTE!

It still needs to reach 1 million votes in total, not only the 7 country thresholds.

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- Vittelius@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Right, I knew I forgot to mention something in my post. 1000% this
  
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- Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Set a reminder for when I’m home
  
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  - B0rax@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Are you home now?
    
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  - exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Did you do it?
    
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- tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why does it need to reach 1 million names exactly? This is a petition, right?
  
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  - jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If it reaches the threshold the European Comission is forced to formally answer to it, which requires them do a full review of the subject and this greatly increases the probability of something being done.
    
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wise@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
God, I miss the EU

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- Vittelius@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There is a UK petition in the works. It’s not quite ready yet, because thanks to your recent election the team behind the initiative had to redo all of their work. (Your government requires everybody to resubmit petitions if a new parliament is elected)
  
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HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I remember when Mega Man X DIVE ended, and then turned around and released an Offline version with all the non-PVP content and none of the microtransactions. That was beautiful. Wish I could play a version of Marvel Heroes that was like that.

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dino@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t understand this bullshit, if developers/publishers drop their games, just stop investing time into their games or buying from them. How could you force private companies to invest into something which gives zero return?

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- awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There’s like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them…
  
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- B0rax@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The point is not to force them to invest into it, but to open them up if they don’t want to support them anymore.
  
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  - dino@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “open them up”? make them open source or what? thats ridicolous
    
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Whar@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Signed and shared to my friends!

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Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So certainly not a meme about the long haired house lady who is trying to defend our rights

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