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This is your somewhat regularly scheduled Stop Killing Games update.

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

Germany has hit the threshold sometime yesterday evening. France has also started to catch up. They are still below 50% but there growth over the last couple of days has been the biggest. Netherlands and Denmark are still in the low 90s.

The milestone comes on the eve of this years Gamescom in Cologne, Germany which is set to kick off today. SKG is not going to have an official presence there. (I've checked with the organisers) But if you are attending and want to help spread the word I'm happy to share official marketing material, either in the form of flyers or the files for flyers, so you can print your own. They come in both German and English. If you want some, send me a DM.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right, so why is the initiative about video games? That’s my issue with this initiative. It doesn’t do anything to address the actual issue.

That's the whataboutism, but hey let's pretend your new point about free to play games is what we where talking about my guy

Urgh, yes they will still exist if this goes though and will someday go away if this law does not happen.

Free to play games are the easest to kill off, you would think people who play them would want some way to continue doing so.

Read what the proposed goal is and let us know how this is going to kill your games.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Read what the proposed goal is and let us know how this is going to kill your games.

In the initiative creator's Q&A this is how he answers the question "I am a developer with an online-only game. What will happen if this initiative passes?" The answer is "shut down your game."

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes and now put on your critical thinking hat about that statement.