EU Citizen’s Petition Launches to Stop Video Games From Disappearing
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The EU citizen's petition by Stop Killing Games asks publishers to be required to keep games accessible even if they are no longer supported. In the first five days, over 158,000 of one million required people have already signed.
An EU Citizen’s Petition registered by the initiative Stop Killing Games has started collecting signatures from all around the Union in 31 July. The petition calls for publishers keep games that they discontinue from dissappearing altogether. 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.
If the petition succeeds, it has to be acknowledged and discussed on EU legislative level. For it to succeed, one million total signatures need to be collected, and a threshold of a certain number of signatures needs to be reached in at least seven EU states. Since the launch on 31 July, 158,000 people have already signed the petition when this article was published.
The initiative is represented by Daniel Ondruska from Germany, other members include Aleksej Vjalicin, Zoltan Karoly Konecsin, Egert Nurmsalu, Eduardo Ramon Coscolin, Krzysztof Gapys and Johannes Ortner.
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Pascal Wagner is Chief of Relations of GamesMarket and Senior Editor specialised in indie studios, politics, funding and academic coverage.
