Stop Killing Games - a movement to do just that

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    Stop Killing Games

    www.stopkillinggames.com www.stopkillinggames.com

    UPDATE: Two petitions are having a sudden surge of support! But that surge needs to continue before deadlines passl You need to be either a UK resident/citizen or EU citizen to sign these respectively (but not necessarily currently living there). Of course, sharing helps!

    UK petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/ (100,000 needed by 14th July)
    EU petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home (1 million needed by 31st July)

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    In short - a movement across multiple countries to try to have laws enacted. You can help by signing petitions (no not crappy change.org level ones)! (Once they go live in some cases, anyway). Or by spreading the word.

    If you own The Crew, a) you can't play it anymore, yay live service titles and b) you can especially help here avoid that happening anymore with other forms and actions.

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    The Crew, specifically, was a single-player game with always-online DRM. It was not exclusively multiplayer.
     
    ^ Indeed. Yet it's a game that cannot be played and really shouldn't be the victim of such a case!
     
    Holy batman it's a major bump! But I feel this is justified.

    Over the past few months, or close to a year for one of these, petitions to the UK and EU governments were launched (relaunched in the UK's case because of the election there last year cancelling everything... how dumb). They were going rather slowly, but are now having a sudden surge of support! But that surge needs to continue before deadlines passl You need to be either a UK resident/citizen or EU citizen to sign these respectively (but not necessarily currently living there). Of course, sharing helps!

    UK petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/ (100,000 needed by 14th July)
    EU petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home (1 million needed by 31st July)
     
    Nah said:
    I haven't really been keeping up with this so maybe I just missed something obvious, but how does it know if you're a UK or EU citizen when you sign? What's stopping people from other regions from signing the petitions?
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    You need to provide information with your signature that the governments (as these petitions are run via them) then confirm belongs to you as a registered citizen (or in the UK case alternatively, a resident). It's fairly straightforward at least in the UK case, while for the EU what you need to provide varies by country. So it's not something one can just falsely sign.
     
    Zeostar said:
    I've always felt with games that are exclusively multiplayer, it's simply the lifespan of these and something that should be accounted for when committing time into them. Severs aren't going to be hosted forever. I do agree that there should be a certain warning and time frame though.
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    That is precisely the wrong mindset to have and the initiative also doesn't target just that. This is in place to stop video games just becoming unplayable once said servers have to be removed, by having end-of-life processes in place, whether that's giving the community access to the source code or whatever. Mostly to combat some of the scummy practices the industry is rife with rn.
     
    Honestly we just need to make the always online DRM crap illegal. What happened to the Crew is insane. It'll happen to many others.

    As someone who plays primarily multiplayer online games, I understand that a lot of my favourites will one day go offline, that's the nature of it. However, there is no earthly reason this should ever be a thing with single player experiences.
     
    Arcaneum said:
    That is precisely the wrong mindset to have and the initiative also doesn't target just that. This is in place to stop video games just becoming unplayable once said servers have to be removed, by having end-of-life processes in place, whether that's giving the community access to the source code or whatever. Mostly to combat some of the scummy practices the industry is rife with rn.
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    I created that post months ago but yeah I actually think what I said was pretty ridiculous. (regrettable posts are bound to happen occasionally).

    Even though you quoted me I'm just going to delete my original post since it doesn't represent my current opinion.
     
    As I live in Canada I cannot sign it, but seeing that it's at 883k signatures so far I think it has a good chance of hitting. It's had a huge swing of support in the last couple days and I'm all here for it.
     
    Mercurybro said:
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    Signed!
    I'm glad it's getting more attention from Parliament. I see it's gotten a more detailed response than it did last year when I signed that earlier petition.
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    The last response was mostly the same rubbish as the first one, from my understanding. Back then, the original response had in fact been deemed invalid for not actually addressing the issue and for a new one to be made. Then the UK election was called and that all got cancelled. Now the same department again missed the point. Let's hope the UK parliment pay it better attention!
    The Mega Champion said:
    I don't live in the UK
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    Lots of people don't (nor are an EU citizen). You can however help spread the word about it! That's what I did (plus also signed the UK one as I am here now).
     
    I think I recall signing the european petition some time last year. Got a few games in my library that have become unplayable since server services shut down for them. Plenty of them I technically played solo to begin with and it's baffling that online connections are needed to play certain games at all.
     
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