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Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone
(feddit.org)
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it.
To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. Those national thresholds have been thresholds have been reached. Now it's all about getting to 1 million signatures total.
Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal.
In case you're wondering, the graph looks like this. There have currently been 16k new signatures today. The required pace to make it would be 10k a day. Yesterday the count increased by about 30k signatures.
TL;DR Keep spreading this to people you know, and keep signing. It's working.
Until last week I thought it was done, but somehow it flipped around. Things are looking pretty good, with massive youtubers and streamers taöking about it.
I'm glad the ball is rolling again. This can change gaming and set a precedent for other things as well.
It flipped around because the founder of the movement, Ross, of AccursedFarms on youtube... released a video giving a status report...
And spending a good deal of the video explaining how Thor, PirateSoftware on youtube... has basically been making up bullshit and spreading nonsense about SKG for months now, actively campaigning against SKG, again, based almost entirely on him jumping to hysterical, catastrophic conclusions without factual basis
After that video... basically every single AngloSphere Gamer Youtuber has been putting out videos spreading the SKG messsge, and dogpiling on Thor for being a confused, overconfident narcissist... and Thor is now double triple quadrupling down with 'im the real victim' and other such tactics often employed by manipulative narcissists facing the revelation of their public persona as essentially entirely hypocritical.
EDIT: Also, as of right now, I'm seeing 723k...
Which is roughly +20k in only 6 hours from the time this OP was made.
EDIT 2:
If you've ever heard of, or seen the Freeman's Mind series... yeah, that's Ross, basically being Freeman's internal monologue, and turning the entirety of Half Life into an action comedy bonanza.
He had more recently been attempting to get through all of HL2 this way as well, in addition to doing esoteric game reviews... untill he got so pissed about Ubisoft being able to just murder The Crew, and what is going on with all games in terms of consumer rights... that he started the SKG movement, and hasn't had much time to work on his other stuff as much.
midnight CET: 753k! thats +30k in the last 6 hours. it's speeding up, i didn't expect that tbh. 50k people in 12 hours, wow