this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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Stop Killing Games

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

The grassroots movement to prevent game publishers from disabling older games with kill switches after official support ends.

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Milestones:

(41.40%) Petition

7/7 Countries reached.

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Current: 2,650 signatures weekly

Target: 23,440 signatures weekly

Safe Target: 31,440 signatures weekly

Goals:

(48%) of the signatures will be reached at this rate.

175 days / 25 weeks / 6 months left.

Final Day: 31/7/2025.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

AFAIK the initiative calls for the publishers to release the software needed to host your own servers. If everyone can host their own servers(what is quite common for some games) Theres no need for the publisher to pay for their own servers.