https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Safe to say the petition was a success! Now we will have to wait and see the EU’s response to it.
I wouldn’t call it safe. The required margin is unknown and the initiative could still dip under 1 mil.
Additional signatures could still help. If you know somebody who can and hasn’t signed yet, ask them to.
I’ve recently gotten back into (indie) game dev and made my multiplayer game with Stop Killing Games in mind. When you connect to the game, if the server is down, you get a one-click solution to run the server locally and play single player instead.
This setup actually helped speed up development too, since now I don’t need to run both the server and client when making (most) changes :)
You’re doing gods work my dude
Hope every gaming company out there is sweating buckets at this. This is a matter of consumer rights.
We don’t want them to sweat, we just want them to do the right thing by their customers
The only way I see that happen is having the tools and ability to pirate any and all media like we had back in the napster days. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen these companies scared. A petition I don’t think will do much. Plus not only is there this issue. There is also the issue of groups now targeting the way funding works like on steam. Payment processes are now being used to apply pressure where certain groups do not like the content.
The solution was always to defend and protect the people who cracked and pirated content. But I think they were all locked up and threatened.
A petition I don’t think will do much.
This isn’t just any regular change.org petition, that can be ignored. It’s an official partition based on EU rules, where EU parliament is forced by law to listen to the initiators and talk about the topic, when it passes.
These two things overlap under capitalism, as doing right by your customers is only required if not doing right by your customers affects your profits.
We definitely want them to sweat.
They hire like two lobbyists with 100k of splurge money and this won’t pass, for sure.
If voting or filling a petition changed anything they would make it illegal.
The EU is not swayed by this kind of thing easily.
America brain, Its like they think everyone is in the same dystopia as them.
By the way, the left could have done this for any number of issues in the past but refused to.
Like how hard would it have been if everyone who showed up to a George Floyd protest instead donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them in Washington to change laws and make sure the police officers and department actually saw justice.
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donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them
It would be more effective to get a quarter of 1.4 million people organized with united demands and on the streets of Brussels with the actual risk of projecting threat violence on EU bureaucrats, then StopKillingGames or any petition or demand would have a much better chance of passing. At that point you wouldn’t even need collect any names before hand :) All the voting, all the petitions all the representation only exists to act as an filter and push the little people people and their little people idea’s far away from actual power as possible.
I’ll be positively surprised if this passes, but I really really really doubt it. Too much money at stake here just for the sake of having some pro consumer common sense.
The EU has gotten us pro consumer common sense a number of times already, like with iPhones and the GDPR.
There is no way that you believe people showing up in streets would do anything lol
That’s what the powerful hope we do. It’s the most useless action possible. It’s like trying to boil water by breathing hot air on it. You’ll get tired way before you get any boiling.
If only the “tax the rich” petition had such a great villain to reinvigorate interest, but I take what I can get.
My thoughts exactly, I find it very disheartening.
This is an EU petition, not the US.
Doomers coming out in force today
???
What does the US have to do with anything I said?
Elon, Trump, and the rest of the fucking pantheon weren’t enough to invigorate interest, I don’t who is.
But how many of these have worked at Blizzard?
Why would that matter? EU is generally not as shit as the US on consumer protection
It’s a jab at the Pirate Software guy, I believe.
I miss when I didn’t have to hear about him all the time
Yeah, I’d like to think people would focus on other things now that SKG picked up the pace but he’ll most likely be brought up for a long time regardless on what happens with the campaign in the future - even if just as a punching bag for people to feel superior about.
Keep at it EU gamers!
If only someone could garner that much support for StopKillingGazans amirite
Easy to gather, but will likely be ignored, sadly.
There’s arguably much more support for that, than stopkillinggames.
But the political opposition to stopkillinggames is far less.
Gamers unite 💪
But then Trump said . .
Quiet America, Europe is talking.
This isn’t about you, America.
I genuinely can’t think of any way to address your level of immaturity. Here’s your reality check. I didn’t vote for the guy, I don’t like him. You’ve been checked kid.
You’ve been checked kid.
OK, Boomer.
And StopKillingGames has nothing directly to do with America. It’s a European/UK petition. At least understand what the topic is about before bringing up unrelated things.
Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.
Here’s your reality check. I didn’t vote for the guy, I don’t like him. You’ve been checked kid.
Like someone actually typed that out, wild.
Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.
An internet without Americans?
Yes please, I’ve been craving this for quite some time by now
