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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:
Pirate Software, a former Blizzard and Amazon Games dev, did a YouTube video on this recently with some fair criticisms of the initiative. It’s worth a watch.
Thor is a grifter who just doesn’t want his live service investments impacted. (Rivals of Aether) https://medium.com/illumination-gaming/ludwig-thor-team-up-to-launch-offbrand-games-42ee230d7cb1
Thor shows the opposite sentiment when talking with Tim Bender (Manor Lords) https://streamable.com/339l26 .
The development credit to his name is one undertale clone that has been in development for 7~ years, and QA for blizzard. He should NOT be treated as an authority on this.
It seems to me that his problem with it boils down to the odd case of someone trying to ruin an online game to make the developer abandon it and then host it themselves to make money from it. This would only be a problem with free or very cheap online games because to have bots to disrupt the game you would have to buy an account for each of these bots. That would become very expensive very quickly.
Signed! I recall reading a guide thinking “I’ll sign later” - I just clicked Sign the initiative here, accepted their terms, signed in with my country’s eID, clicked OK, done.
Less than a minute of work! Surprisingly smooth!
It sucks that my country will never cath up to this standard.
Which country, if I may ask?
I’m Italian and I’m also disappointed in my country, but on the other hand we have an old population and our threshold is so high.
Because gaming like any other industry needs regulation and politics instead of educating people to think and make conscious decisions. I just can’t wait for governments start taking care of gaming. I can’t say that the goal isn’t noble but it will result with taxes and billion dollars funds that will double the prices of games and regulate market so only corporate will be able to afford to publish and make games. Good Luck. I’m to old for this shit.
Billions? Try more like trillions! And just you wait until you see the Torture Matrix that comes with every government policy get added as DLC to the crew!
You look like a person who knows exactly how EU legislation works, how much we need lawyers and gaming industry experts from biggest gaming companies telling us how gaming should look like because law won’t write by itself.
Funny how biggest problem in gaming is people spending money on product that stopped working after 10 years from release.
Let’s bring government standards from other industries into gaming so people could complain more.
Let’s ruin gaming together ! Teach me because I know nothing about life.
I’m like you, I also like it when the owners of a video game IP have a right to sue preservators of games they’ve shut down and deleted, instead of having to let people keep it running.
Ghad damn straight brudduh. The gubberment is gonna come and force-regulate badness into the games. Well I won’t stand for it just like how I won’t stand for being forced to have a license plate. Where goes traveling so to goes gaming.
Big shout-out to Timm with two M
