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The original petition failed due to two issues:

  • UK government misinterpreted what the petition is about and didn't really answered to what was being asked
  • early general elections canceled all ongoing petitions at the time

This attempt has a new, reworded petition to, hopefully, make it simple and clear enough to avoid any additional problems.

There are two thresholds for UK petitions:

  • 10 000 signatures: official government response
  • 100 000 signatures: petition will be considered for debate in Parliament

Here is a video from Ross Scott (the main organizer of the Stop Killing Games initiative) about this update.

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 19 points 5 months ago

Can't wait for PirateGames to shit on this one too and be a great big Blizzard shill again.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Dude you don't get it, the AAA devs will literally go bankrupt if they have to waste a fraction of their profits to do the bare minimum!!! Why won't anyone think of the children?????

[-] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

If you haven't, You can also vote on european one, it has 40% of required signatures.

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I wish some big-name YT/Twitch personality helped raise awareness for the petition. It's ending in a few months and if nothing changes, I don't see it reaching the required signatures in time.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Does Ross/Accursed Farms, the person who started this movement, not count?

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

It's good, he's the originator, but the reach in Europe is not that great and there have only been a few multilingual channels that have picked it up.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

It's not going to get the signatures because the average person does not care about this. I play a lot of games and even I don't care. If you don't like the game, don't buy it. Why does there need to be regulation to stop me from buying it too?

[-] tomi000@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Interesting how condifently you are talking about the subject even though your comment makes it obvious you have no idea what the petition is about.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them.

If a company says they're going to disable a video game a year after I purchase it and I won't be able to retain or repair it and I agree to those terms, can I still buy it?

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

One of the big problems about the original petition was that it had a focus on gaming. But this is a problem in the entire software industry, and as much as gaming is probably the more serious concern for the majority of people, it is considered by the government to be somewhat unimportant. Corporate software though has a more mature image, and so is more likely to be considered.

Any software that is sold by a company should be open sourced if the company chooses to end support. Either because the company goes out of business or because they just decide it's no longer profitable to continue updating the software, and yes, this does include older versions of iOS.

A rising tide and all that.

[-] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

These petitions are limited in scope for a reason - this is a small initiative and the goal is to focus on one part of the market which started the whole thing (the initiative, not the software killing issue), as well as to limit the number of big companies that could be affected (the potential opposition).

Sure, ideally this would expand on all software but you have to start somewhere, especially when you're just a bunch of randos with little knowledge about law and no funds to turn it into a serious lobbying movement - one that could both get the political attention and was able to defend its stance from corporations.

[-] MITM0@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

It failed because it was USA, you might have better luck in EU

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

I know UK left the EU, but I wasn't aware they had joined USA.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

God, what an awful thought

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