https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Safe to say the petition was a success! Now we will have to wait and see the EU’s response to it.
Hope every gaming company out there is sweating buckets at this. This is a matter of consumer rights.
We don’t want them to sweat, we just want them to do the right thing by their customers
The only way I see that happen is having the tools and ability to pirate any and all media like we had back in the napster days. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen these companies scared. A petition I don’t think will do much. Plus not only is there this issue. There is also the issue of groups now targeting the way funding works like on steam. Payment processes are now being used to apply pressure where certain groups do not like the content.
The solution was always to defend and protect the people who cracked and pirated content. But I think they were all locked up and threatened.
A petition I don’t think will do much.
This isn’t just any regular change.org petition, that can be ignored. It’s an official partition based on EU rules, where EU parliament is forced by law to listen to the initiators and talk about the topic, when it passes.
They hire like two lobbyists with 100k of splurge money and this won’t pass, for sure.
If voting or filling a petition changed anything they would make it illegal.
The EU is not swayed by this kind of thing easily.
America brain, Its like they think everyone is in the same dystopia as them.
You know the guy who started this petition is an American, right?
I was under the impression that Ross Scott lived in Poland, but what does that matter its an EU and UK initiative.
By the way, the left could have done this for any number of issues in the past but refused to.
Like how hard would it have been if everyone who showed up to a George Floyd protest instead donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them in Washington to change laws and make sure the police officers and department actually saw justice.
donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them
It would be more effective to get a quarter of 1.4 million people organized with united demands and on the streets of Brussels with the actual risk of projecting threat violence on EU bureaucrats, then StopKillingGames or any petition or demand would have a much better chance of passing. At that point you wouldn’t even need collect any names before hand :) All the voting, all the petitions all the representation only exists to act as an filter and push the little people people and their little people idea’s far away from actual power as possible.
I’ll be positively surprised if this passes, but I really really really doubt it. Too much money at stake here just for the sake of having some pro consumer common sense.
The EU has gotten us pro consumer common sense a number of times already, like with iPhones and the GDPR.
I’ve recently gotten back into (indie) game dev and made my multiplayer game with Stop Killing Games in mind. When you connect to the game, if the server is down, you get a one-click solution to run the server locally and play single player instead.
This setup actually helped speed up development too, since now I don’t need to run both the server and client when making (most) changes :)
You’re doing gods work my dude
But how many of these have worked at Blizzard?
Why would that matter? EU is generally not as shit as the US on consumer protection
It’s a jab at the Pirate Software guy, I believe.
I miss when I didn’t have to hear about him all the time
Keep at it EU gamers!
If only someone could garner that much support for StopKillingGazans amirite
There’s arguably much more support for that, than stopkillinggames.
But the political opposition to stopkillinggames is far less.
Easy to gather, but will likely be ignored, sadly.
If only the “tax the rich” petition had such a great villain to reinvigorate interest, but I take what I can get.
I wouldn’t call it safe. The required margin is unknown and the initiative could still dip under 1 mil.
Additional signatures could still help. If you know somebody who can and hasn’t signed yet, ask them to.
Thanks, PirateSoftware!
But then Trump said . .
This isn’t about you, America.
I genuinely can’t think of any way to address your level of immaturity. Here’s your reality check. I didn’t vote for the guy, I don’t like him. You’ve been checked kid.
And StopKillingGames has nothing directly to do with America. It’s a European/UK petition. At least understand what the topic is about before bringing up unrelated things.
Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.
Here’s your reality check. I didn’t vote for the guy, I don’t like him. You’ve been checked kid.
Like someone actually typed that out, wild.
Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.
An internet without Americans?
Yes please, I’ve been craving this for quite some time by now
Quiet America, Europe is talking.
