The European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop Destroying Videogames’ is nearing its deadline on July 31st and is still missing quite a lot of signatures. To be precise, at the time of writing this post, only 560.000 of the required 1.000.000 signatures have been reached.
Another requirement has already been fulfilled: The minimum signature threshold has been reached in 10 countries, 7 were required.
If this is the first time of you hearing about this initiative, here’s a short TL;DR for you (more detailed information can be found here):
- Publishers that sell or license videogames should have to leave their videogames in a functional (playable) state.
- This means: Remote disabling of video games (such as live service titles) without providing means of keeping the game functional without the involvement of the publisher should be illegal.
- This does NOT mean that publishers should support their games forever, but rather that they provide tools (such as server binaries) to enable others to keep the game playable.
The initiative is slowly picking up speed again recently after its creator published a video explaining some of the background and why he doesn’t want to continue after the initiative is over. The video has been well-received by the community and some big influencers have reported on the topic.
If you are an EU citizen and have not signed yet, THIS IS THE TIME! The month until the deadline is met will pass quickly. Use two minutes of your time to influence something that may improve your life forever!
Let’s go!
Wish I could sign. Been sending it to people I know overseas. Commenting to hopefully bump the visibility.
I am literally lemmy engagement farming lol thats the only reason i am commenting. Upvote the post and comment so it gets pushed up. Also if im already commenting, please inform family and friends about the inititive as well. If everyone who signed it so far gets another person to sign it that would mean we would have enough signatures. Also try reaching out if your native tounge is not english because thats why some regions are getting really low engagement. Good luck and i believe in this huge w!
Okay, here’s another comment. I’m guessing most people sort by hot and active, so the more comments the more it dhows up in people’s feed!
Another comment, to boost this cause!
Le’ts go! We have to make Ubisoft and EA repsonsible for their titles
Absolutely,
This is only going to become a larger issue as time goes on.
the site wont load on iphone 6s safari, but i underscribed a month ago anyway.
on old android 8.1 browsing still works flawlessly, so fuck apple how they do it with safari!
