Games @lemmy.world Essence_of_Meh @lemmy.world 1mo ago

The "Stop Killing Games" EU Petition is Live

citizens-initiative.europa.eu Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative

It's available as an official European Citizens' Initiative Proposal.

Deadline: 31/07/2025

Corresponding video by Ross

Edit: Swapped the links to direct straight to the initiative page.

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Already signed it. Took about two seconds thanks to eID.
- Same, and same!
- 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.
  
  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.
- Yeah it was very easy actually. Though fair warning to people who are sensitive to flashing lights: after logging in with DigiD (Netherlands) 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.
Takes less than a minute to fill out. If you're a citizen of the EU, please take a few seconds and sign this.
- 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.
Without using any videos, explain to me what this is.
- Short version: it's a campaign to force publishers to provide some way to play online only games after they decide to shut down the servers. That or letting us know, by law, that games can be killed without repercussion. It's not about forcing publishers to keep the servers alive forever if that's what you're wondering.
  
  Long version: check out the official website for the Stop Killing Games campaign. It has FAQ with all the important info.
  
  Oh holy hell that’s a good idea. I’m not a citizen of EU, but I am currently a working resident. Would my name qualify for this?
  
  Would this include the availability of playing single player offline games without the need to log in to different accounts and signing in to third party clients? That shit makes me completely crazy. I just want to build a pretty little city all by myself, why in the world would I need to be online and sign into shit for that.
I would love to sign this but I'm in the UK. I'll spread the word instead!
- Please do! We need as many eyes on this as possible.
Is that page broken or something? I can't do anything.
- There are some technical issues with the whole portal, can't open any other initiatives either.

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