https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

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

To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. Now both of those goals have been reached. But that’s no reason to stop signing! Some signatures will get thrown out in the validation phase because the signee made a mistake. So keep signing and show the world just how many people are in favour of saving videogames.

    • Elvith Ma'for ( elvith@feddit.org ) English
      30·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, please everyone - keep signing! That’s the total amount of support but there may be some corrections to weed out bots or fake signers in the end, so the real count is probably a bit lower.

  • jjpamsterdam ( jjpamsterdam@feddit.org ) English
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is an important milestone. However, in several countries including large ones like Germany, it is possible to sign the petition without an eID. There definitely needs to be a security buffer.

    However, the relatively simple method of signing in Germany and countries that similarly don’t require you to jump through many hoops makes it easier, in my view, to encourage other, older people to sign. Feel free to openly discuss the topic with your family. In my family chat, a simple share with a short explanation of why the issue is important to me resulted in two more signatures.

  • Neshura ( neshura@bookwyr.me ) English
    1·
    1 year ago

    Still need to keep pushing, after the deadline votes will be verified (why this does not happen at the time of signing is beyond me but whatever) and not every vote will be valid, so having a certain buffer is always good

    • Vittelius ( Vittelius@feddit.org ) OPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      why this does not happen at the time of signing is beyond me but whatever

      Data protection. The EU doesn’t do the validation, they don’t even have the data necessary for it. That job falls to the national governments. But why share the data if the initiative wasn’t successful in the first place.

      • Neshura ( neshura@bookwyr.me ) English
        1·
        1 year ago

        you could most likely do a check at time of signing with eID without having the data headache. What might be the cause of the verification after the deadline are probably the various non-eID signing options. Still somewhat annyoing but I guess at least until eID actually reaches widespread usage everywhere we’ll have to keep it this way