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The "Stop Killing Games" EU Petition is Live (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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It's available as an official European Citizens' Initiative Proposal.

Deadline: 31/07/2025

Corresponding video by Ross

Edit: Swapped the links to direct straight to the initiative page.

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[-] MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Would this include the availability of playing single player offline games without the need to log in to different accounts and signing in to third party clients? That shit makes me completely crazy. I just want to build a pretty little city all by myself, why in the world would I need to be online and sign into shit for that.

[-] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Not really. This isn't about completely preventing publishers from adding account systems etc. (even if that would be ideal), it's about publishers removing your ability to play games after they the shut down the servers. The former would hopefully be a side effect of a potential law change/ruling but the main point is keeping games playable after the official support ends.

In your example it could be removal of the sign in requirement once the account system is down but not necessarily preventing them from existing in the first place.