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Stop Killing Games is a community-led campaign promoting continued development and support for video games after they are discontinued by publishers.
… They were absolutely slated to die." The "European Citizens Initiative" refers to the Stop Destroying Games petition that Stop Killing Games posted to gather signatures so its case could be heard in European Parliament. …
… This week's verdict relates to the Stop Destroying Videogames citizens' initiative, organised by the Stop Killing Games movement, which was a petition aimed at convincing the EU to establish a new legal framework to guard against game companies suddenly switching games off that people had paid for. …
The Stop Killing Games initiative, which is fighting against the full termination of games, recently made it to the European Parliament and has pushed publishers like Ubisoft to make their games accessible when the servers are shut off - The Crew 2 is the most recent win . …
The California State Assembly has passed the Protect Our Games Act, a bill centred on protecting consumer rights as detailed by the Stop Killing Games movement. …
Stop Killing Games, fresh from speaking at EU parliament about video game consumer rights , has now joined the pushback against age verification laws, claiming that they don't fix the causes of online harm and implementing them is prohibitively complex for game preservation once a publisher moves o… …
… The salvation for Stop Killing Games may turn out to be its very antagonist. "The biggest benefit that Stop Killing Game has in terms of remaining in the cultural zeitgeist is that games keep dying," Hayes concludes. "The thing we are trying to stop keeps happening. …
… "This is the same fight as in Europe : a grassroots consumer movement asking for basic end-of-life protections, versus the industry lobby trying to preserve the right to sell games that can later be rendered useless while preserving control," wrote Stop Killing Games general director Moritz Katzner… …
… Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott was part of a team of people related to the "Stop Destroying Games" project that petitioned its way into the European Parliament with more than 1 million European citizen signatures. …
… And in its summoning of shared histories both real and imagined, Forbidden Solitaire also manages, albeit indirectly, to be something else too: a timely reminder - as Stop Killing Games fights for online games , as we face a digital-only future , and as the medium feels more ephemeral than ever - t… …
… These closures fall within the argument consumer rights movement Stop Killing Games is making, which is that consumers deserve clearly stated end-of-life procedures for games with significant multiplayer components, which otherwise stop being playable when servers are turned off. …
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