Dear Cypriots! Video game publishers have created a way to destroy your property! How does it work?
Imagine that you have a car. It's brand new. It is beautiful on the outside, it has comfortable seats and riding it feels like a trip to heaven! However one day something is wrong. No matter what you do – you can't start the engine. You take the car to a mechanic and he tells you that everything would've been OK – if it weren't for that one chip, which stopped working. You can't buy a new chip anywhere – and therefore you have to purchase a whole new car.
The same thing currently happens to many video games. At least 60 of them were destroyed in 2023! The Crew was most famous of them. Full list is here: https://kotaku.com/dead-games-2023-delisted-servers-offline-1850083031
And many more games will suffer such fate in 2024. If we don't stop this now – who knows? Maybe the car example will become a reality?
Okay, but how do we stop this? It's simple, really. Just sign the European Citizen Initiative!
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
And to be clear: no, it's not another powerless petition. It's European Citizen Initiative! It has a serious chance of influencing the EU law! However, it has to reach minimum million signatures and pass thresholds in at least seven countries to do so.
Please, tell about it to your friends/family who live on Cyprus. Cypriot threshold is just 4,300 signatures – and you can help whole Europe by passing it!
In order to sign the initiative you have to be over 18 and have EU country citizenship. You don't fulfill these criteria? Don't worry! Send info about Stop Killing Games to your friends or family!
And finally: SKG's goal is NOT to force publishers to sustain their servers forever! It's goal is to force them to allow community to host their own servers independent from publisher. The best example of how this works is Valve's game team Fortress 2, which was saved by community run servers.
Same goes for platform software updates. SKG's goal is to force developers to allow community to make their own independent compatibility/emulation pathes/mods (which is the case for many old games). NOT to force the devs to update their games forever.
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by Weekly_Hunt9474
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Hah, so you were worryingly looking at the petition numbers for Malta and Cyprus too? ;P
COME ON man
The crew??! 2012 game with avarage players base 49 people…
This kind of game take licence and pay rent to car companies are you willing to pay that much so u play a race game created 13 years ago?!!
Dont be ridiculous
What are the ramifications to the EU citizens of the EU passing this law?
I’m not a gamer, just a software engineer.
In my mind, if I was a video game studio, I might choose not to sell to the EU if it means that there is a negative impact on my business by selling to the EU…
Alright I’m putting my big boy pants curling up my sleeves and getting ready to be downvoted
This is a bad statement and I will not sign this petition and would advise the other to not sign it either
Don’t give the car dealership talk to anyone that’s stupid first and foremost specify what games are being destroyed? To answer that question it’s live service games
Why are they being destroyed? (Shut down to be exact)
Because companies make no profit through these games or have moved on to making a sequel to those live service games, games that require a lot of maintenance, maintenance that is being done by the Devs and those devs need to be paid to do their job but once the company shuts down the game then kiss those servers a goodbye
Lastly you are buying a licence to a game you don’t own the game which is also the reason you can get banned because you don’t own that you only have a licence which is why it’s revoked when you break / violate the terms of service
Also go watch piratesoftware’s videos for more info on that movement the statement is very blunt / vague and can be very harmful for both developer and player of a game.
Just a side note passing this you will force any live service game out there to change its ToS just for Eu….Steam, League of Legends , Fortnite , PoE , FiFa TcG Games, GtA and many more. Those all Games are live service games which you get for free now… pass it and will see what will happen… Buy a VPN service from now on because u want the crew 😛 cheers and farewell
Live service games can burn as far as i am concerned. Greediness is killing those games, not the EU.