#StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold
#StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold
This is your somewhat regularly scheduled Stop Killing Games update.
Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it.
Germany has hit the threshold sometime yesterday evening. France has also started to catch up. They are still below 50% but there growth over the last couple of days has been the biggest. Netherlands and Denmark are still in the low 90s.
The milestone comes on the eve of this years Gamescom in Cologne, Germany which is set to kick off today. SKG is not going to have an official presence there. (I've checked with the organisers) But if you are attending and want to help spread the word I'm happy to share official marketing material, either in the form of flyers or the files for flyers, so you can print your own. They come in both German and English. If you want some, send me a DM.
Relevant links:
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If you are an EU citizen and agree with the initiative: GO VOTE!
It still needs to reach 1 million votes in total, not only the 7 country thresholds.
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Right, I knew I forgot to mention something in my post. 1000% this
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Why does it need to reach 1 million names exactly? This is a petition, right?
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If it reaches the threshold the European Comission is forced to formally answer to it, which requires them do a full review of the subject and this greatly increases the probability of something being done.
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God, I miss the EU
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There is a UK petition in the works. It's not quite ready yet, because thanks to your recent election the team behind the initiative had to redo all of their work. (Your government requires everybody to resubmit petitions if a new parliament is elected)
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I remember when Mega Man X DIVE ended, and then turned around and released an Offline version with all the non-PVP content and none of the microtransactions. That was beautiful. Wish I could play a version of Marvel Heroes that was like that.
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I don't understand this bullshit, if developers/publishers drop their games, just stop investing time into their games or buying from them. How could you force private companies to invest into something which gives zero return?
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There's like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them...
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Signed and shared to my friends!
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So certainly not a meme about the long haired house lady who is trying to defend our rights
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If a game has a mode that works in singleplayer without ethernet connection is it covered by this initiative? Since that would not require further support by the developer?
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As far as the initative is concerned such a game would not be covered.
However there is a chance that shutting down the servers and therefore robbing players of part of the product they bought is already illegal under EU law. And if that's the case then it will ultimately up to whatever consumer protection agency takes on the case. (The initiative has been trying to get either the French or German organisation on the case for months)
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I agree that shutting down a games servers while leaving a singplayer mode still can be a bad move and will give team fortress 2 as an example.
- people can buy cosmetics in the game, but some may only buy them for their appearance on the multiplayer servers to other players
- 90% of the games depth with strategy comes from competing with other humans
- the bots in the singleplayer mode of the game are quite stupid, especially if you play as a spy
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