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.

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[–] 193 points 1 year ago* (23 children)

Hope every gaming company out there is sweating buckets at this. This is a matter of consumer rights.

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  • [–] 87 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    We don’t want them to sweat, we just want them to do the right thing by their customers

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ok but is there any group or lobbyists who are advocating or will this just be a petition sent to them which they can just ignore.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The European Parliament legally cannot ignore it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    To what extent do they have to talk about it, though? Can they address it, come to the conclusion that it's infeasible (while subtly tucking millions of dollars from game companies into their pockets), and consider the matter settled? I understand that governments are meant to keep corporations in check to benefit the people, but functionally they keep the people in check to benefit corporations and their "lobbyists" (bribes).

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    [–] 153 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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 :)

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  • [–] 90 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If only the "tax the rich" petition had such a great villain to reinvigorate interest, but I take what I can get.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This is an EU petition, not the US.

    Doomers coming out in force today

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ???

    What does the US have to do with anything I said?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Many countries in the EU already tax the rich. I mean, it could be better. It could be a lot better, and we still have right-wing types that try to destroy that positive element within the EU.

    But of all the countries that would benefit the most from heavily taxing the rich, it would be the US. And since the US has made itself the centre of all the world's attention, and the whole world still uses the USD as the primary exchange currency, anything that would shake up the economy of the US would shake up the economy of the world.

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  • Nothing, but that doesn't stop people with Americabrain from making terrible comments here.

    The EU has a record of actually passing pro-consumer legislation such as the GDPR and forcing companies to use standardized cables. Claiming that nothing is going to happen because of lobbying doesn't hold up nearly as well as it does in the US

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    [–] 77 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    But how many of these have worked at Blizzard?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why would that matter? EU is generally not as shit as the US on consumer protection

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's a jab at the Pirate Software guy, I believe.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I miss when I didn't have to hear about him all the time

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I'd like to think people would focus on other things now that SKG picked up the pace but he'll most likely be brought up for a long time regardless on what happens with the campaign in the future - even if just as a punching bag for people to feel superior about.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Thanks, PirateSoftware!

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Keep at it EU gamers!

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If only someone could garner that much support for StopKillingGazans amirite

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    We should vote out any EU parliament member who doesn't vote ay on that lae

    Lobbying against 'SKG' will be massive.

    As always - evey problem comes from people voting on conservative and not social-democrats or social-liberals

    Every other parties are bullshit worth zero

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