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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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.
Personally i'm a bit sad that video games get more traction than fixing wealth inequalities.
I guess one seems more achievable.
We gotta spread the word. It still seems very achievable if enough people become aware of it.
Which one ? Saving video game ? Sure, tax-the-rich have less than a month, less votes than this petition.
Anyone who signed the one should be signing the other as well. It’s not that you can sign only one of them.
This is the first time I even see that initiative and I'm in several leftist spaces. Grassroots advocacy is tough man
It’s simple, I see a stop killing games post and I upvote.
You know, I'm something of a "I'm doing my part" guy myself.
I was really sure I deleted my reddit account
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.
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
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.
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!
Pushed my lazy ass to do the same. For anyone still hesitating, it truly does only take a minute and it couldn't be easier!
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.
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!
Wunderbar! Jetzt lasst uns auf ein Millionen gehen!
BRD! BRD! BRD!
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.
Big shout-out to Timm with two M
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.