L’iniziativa dell’UE “Stop distruggere i videogiochi” si trova a 432k firme su 1 milione! La scadenza è 2025-07-31. Se superati e implementati, gli editori saranno costretti a lasciare i giochi in uno stato giocabile una volta che li hanno chiusi/vengono abbandonati. Compagni giocatori, condividi con la tua famiglia e i tuoi amici!
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di snailcat86
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Here’s the link to the initiative incase the QR code doesn’t work! https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007
It’s much better to organize a group of creating open-source free alternatives to games, than to try to enforce this.
Nothing will happen, if there is no market in this.
> An increasing number of publishers are selling videogames that are required to connect through the internet to the game publisher, or “phone home” to function. While this is not a problem in itself
Yes it is.
The original petition (before it was on europa.eu) explicitly said that they want to put into law that requiring internet access (including for single-player games) is okay. I don’t see that (explicitly) on this one, but I still don’t like the implications of it. Please don’t sign this, this proposal is controlled opposition.
Signed
If passed and implemented is quite an enormous if..
While I’m very much a gamer and fully agree that it’s wrong for games to just vanish without players having any say, I think parts of the *Stop Killing Games* campaign seem a bit short-sighted or counterproductive.
Yes, shutting down online-only games with no alternative is frustrating, and preservation absolutely matters—but forcing all studios to keep every game alive forever could massively increase costs across the board. Big AAA studios might be able to afford those extra “goodie bags” for investors, but a lot of smaller or mid-tier studios are already operating on razor-thin margins.
Here’s an idea that might be a better compromise:
If a studio no longer wants to—or can—maintain a game, they should be required to either make it open source or release it into the public domain. That way, the community can keep it alive, mod it, run servers, and preserve it, without forcing devs to keep throwing resources at something they’ve moved on from.
That still protects consumers from losing access to something they paid for, but it also gives smaller studios a way out that doesn’t ruin them financially. Thoughts?
Why do you think [r/Europe](https://www.reddit.com/r/Europe/) needs dozens of reposts of this petition? Please stop spamming.
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1jxegkn/the_stop_killing_videogames_eu_petition_sits_at/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1jxegkn/the_stop_killing_videogames_eu_petition_sits_at/)
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1jk6lai/lets_show_the_big_companys_that_user_rights_exist/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1jk6lai/lets_show_the_big_companys_that_user_rights_exist/)
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1i16oji/the_stop_killing_games_citizens_initiative_still/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1i16oji/the_stop_killing_games_citizens_initiative_still/)
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1g1ii23/stop_destroying_video_games_reaches_37_support_in/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1g1ii23/stop_destroying_video_games_reaches_37_support_in/)
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1f7wgfl/stop_killing_games_one_month_later/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1f7wgfl/stop_killing_games_one_month_later/)
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1eqkf4a/new_eu_stop_killing_games_petition_which_aims_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1eqkf4a/new_eu_stop_killing_games_petition_which_aims_to/)
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1eiel5h/european_citizens_initiative_to_prevent/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1eiel5h/european_citizens_initiative_to_prevent/)
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1embnz8/oc_european_citizens_initiative_success_stop/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1embnz8/oc_european_citizens_initiative_success_stop/)
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1etmdc6/in_the_first_3_weeks_of_the_collection_start_date/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1etmdc6/in_the_first_3_weeks_of_the_collection_start_date/)
… and so on.