Otherwise known as Stop Destroying Games.
The European Citizens’ Initiative petition link (Closes 31st July): https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
The United Kingdom Parliamentary Petition (Closes 14th July): https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074
Back in late 2024, a movement to get regulatory bodies to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union to leave said videogames in a functional state. This at any point where the publisher would otherwise abandon and close down essential services upon which those videogame experiences are dependent.
Unfortunately, around the same time that the movement was launched, misinformation had the impact of taking the wind out of the sails of the movement.
I too was among those who initially chose to hold off on signing it.
Not because I didn’t believe in the titled aim of the movement, but rather because the misinformation gave me pause to think “Oh. ‘He’ thinks that this is garbage? Maybe there is something that I’m not seeing. Let me wait and see.”
Well, I waited for a fair bit longer than I intended, and it took a video of address by the founder and spearhead of the Stop Killing Games movement, Ross Scott, seeing no other reasonable choice, finally addressed the chief source of misinformation – and brought the movement back into the public consciousness again.
That’s how I finally got around to signing it and, seeing that much of the off -shoot discussion around this centers around the bashing of the afore-indirectly-mentioned source of misinformation, I figured that something that might be beneficial at this time would be a call to action that side-steps the intense feelings and drama of this time period.
Also beneficial would be an attempt to modestly appeal to non-videogame players.
This is the result. A capsule of passion for games and a care for consumer rights, rolled into one.