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#StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold (feddit.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/yurop@lemm.ee
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geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/2071604

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.

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[–] 94 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Love the momentum of this initiative, hopefully it reaches success!

FYI, there's also the Tax the rich initiative available, which is ending in October this year.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    Personally i'm a bit sad that video games get more traction than fixing wealth inequalities.

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    • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s simple, I see a stop killing games post and I upvote.

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    • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I can't sign but still will upvote babyyyy. Can't thank the EU enough for all their strict rules. Even brought type-c to iPhone.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 2 years ago

    You might not be able to sign this one, but depending on where in the world you live you might still be able to help. The official website has guides for a lot of countries. And if you live somewhere where you truly can't help (cough USA cough), then thank you never the less

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Same, our great American freedom™️ means that we have very reasonable career politicians working on fixing this nonsense already we don’t spend enough money on lobbyists in order to matter enough to then have any iota of actual representation in the formation of our government’s laws and policies.

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    • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the update! I didn’t know this initiative was an actual thing for the EU. I signed both this and the Tax The Rich initiative mentioned by someone else in the comments. Hope it helps!

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    • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    This is going faster than I expected tbh. Gotta check whether the vote history is available so I can make some "fancy" graphs about the rate of votes/day.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My dumbass, who doesn’t play games at all, thought it was about doing away with games that involved violence/murder. Aye I’m such a dweeb.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To be fair to you: "killing games" and "killer games" do look and sound extremely similar. And "killer games" was the term people who wanted to ban violent games in the 90s and 2000s used.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    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!

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Wunderbar! Jetzt lasst uns auf ein Millionen gehen!

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    BRD! BRD! BRD!

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It sucks that my country will never cath up to this standard.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Big shout-out to Timm with two M

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