Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M
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.
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!
If only the "tax the rich" petition had such a great villain to reinvigorate interest, but I take what I can get.
My thoughts exactly, I find it very disheartening.
Elon, Trump, and the rest of the fucking pantheon weren't enough to invigorate interest, I don't who is.
Edit: how the duck is this a controversial statement
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.
The whole Gaza situation is a wasp's nest that nobody should poke without knowing damn sure what they are doing. There are multiple big players playing chess with other people's life there, and you could lose a lot.
But given the complexity the chance that the situation is resolved and thus something is won is very small.
Yes, it's terrible what is happening. But unless you have a lot of resources and a big army you are not in a position to muscle all the parties involved into submission, which is what will be required at this point.
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
Gamers unite 💪
But then Trump said . .
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
These two things overlap under capitalism, as doing right by your customers is only required if not doing right by your customers affects your profits.
We definitely want them to sweat.
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.
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.
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.