Dear Cypriots! Video game publishers have created a way to destroy your property! How does it work?
Imagine that you have a car. It’s brand new. It is beautiful on the outside, it has comfortable seats and riding it feels like a trip to heaven! However one day something is wrong. No matter what you do – you can’t start the engine. You take the car to a mechanic and he tells you that everything would’ve been OK – if it weren’t for that one chip, which stopped working. You can’t buy a new chip anywhere – and therefore you have to purchase a whole new car.
The same thing currently happens to many video games. At least 60 of them were destroyed in 2023! The Crew was most famous of them. Full list is here: https://kotaku.com/dead-games-2023-delisted-servers-offline-1850083031
And many more games will suffer such fate in 2024. If we don’t stop this now – who knows? Maybe the car example will become a reality?
Okay, but how do we stop this? It’s simple, really. Just sign the European Citizen Initiative!
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
And to be clear: no, it’s not another powerless petition. It’s European Citizen Initiative! It has a serious chance of influencing the EU law! However, it has to reach minimum million signatures and pass thresholds in at least seven countries to do so.
Please, tell about it to your friends/family who live on Cyprus. Cypriot threshold is just 4,300 signatures – and you can help whole Europe by passing it!
In order to sign the initiative you have to be over 18 and have EU country citizenship. You don’t fulfill these criteria? Don’t worry! Send info about Stop Killing Games to your friends or family!
And finally: SKG’s goal is NOT to force publishers to sustain their servers forever! It’s goal is to force them to allow community to host their own servers independent from publisher. The best example of how this works is Valve’s game team Fortress 2, which was saved by community run servers.
Same goes for platform software updates. SKG’s goal is to force developers to allow community to make their own independent compatibility/emulation pathes/mods (which is the case for many old games). NOT to force the devs to update their games forever.
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Posted by Weekly_Hunt9474
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Hah, so you were worryingly looking at the petition numbers for Malta and Cyprus too? ;P
COME ON man
The crew??! 2012 game with avarage players base 49 people…
This kind of game take licence and pay rent to car companies are you willing to pay that much so u play a race game created 13 years ago?!!
Dont be ridiculous