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European Citizens' Initiative to "Stop Destroying Videogames" is missing ridiculously low thresholds. (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)
submitted 8 hours ago by flightyhobler@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/europe@feddit.org/t/2170141

Country Statements of support Threshold Percentage Signatures required
Austria 10162 13395 75.86% 3233
Belgium 13911 14805 93.96% 894
Bulgaria 4597 11985 38.36% 7388
Croatia 4163 8460 49.21% 4297
Cyprus 565 4230 13.36% 3665
Czechia 7421 14805 50.12% 7384
Denmark 12032 9870 121.90% 0
Estonia 3035 4935 61.50% 1900
Finland 15319 9870 155.21% 0
France 49153 55695 88.25% 6542
Germany 98063 67680 144.89% 0
Greece 5018 14805 33.89% 9787
Hungary 9902 14805 66.88% 4903
Ireland 10353 9165 112.96% 0
Italy 24712 53580 46.12% 28868
Latvia 2679 5640 47.50% 2961
Lithuania 5123 7755 66.06% 2632
Luxembourg 946 4230 22.36% 3284
Malta 533 4230 12.60% 3697
Netherlands 26374 20445 129.00% 0
Poland 53599 36660 146.21% 0
Portugal 8402 14805 56.75% 6403
Romania 12377 23265 53.20% 10888
Slovakia 4987 9870 50.53% 4883
Slovenia 2473 5640 43.85% 3167
Spain 36391 41595 87.49% 5204
Sweden 19849 14805 134.07% 0

Just under 3000-4000 people are required per country in Lithuania, Latvia, Malta and Luxembourg. Come on now... that's a small town and in some places even just a village. Are there really that few gamers in those countries?

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[-] b_tr3e@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago

Maybe the range of the petition is bit tight? Idk why it's limited exclusively to video games. Maybe a broader approach covering all sorts of (mostly cloud based/authorized) software and firmware of "smart" hardware would reach a larger part of the general public? I also don't see really convincing legal arguments against the usual "we can't afford running game servers forever" arguments of the industry.

[-] mranachi@aussie.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

"This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.

Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.

The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state."

Right there in black and white, one click away. There is no attempt to force companies to keep servers running, if you have a single player game then it can't remotely destroyed by requiring a server connection that gets taken down without a patch to remove that requirement.

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