EU verifies 1.29 million signatures for Stop Killing Games petition

Pcgamer reports Stop Killing Games volunteer Moritz Katzner shared an update on the initiative’s official subreddit saying the EU has verified 1,294,188 of the petition’s 1,448,270 signatures, comfortably clearing the one million minimum required to move forward in the process. Katzner said the team had planned a larger rollout of the news closer to its next meeting with the European Commission but made a smaller announcement to avoid presenting the case unprepared, unintentionally leaking information to lobby groups, or burning out the volunteer team.

He asked for patience from supporters, writing, "You’re not talking to some abstract institution like the EU, you’re talking to real people." A commenter calculated roughly 89% of submitted signatures were valid; Katzner agreed and wrote, "We’re sitting at around 10%... which puts us firmly in the upper bracket," noting some initiatives see failure rates as high as 20–25%.

Stop Killing Games began in response to publishers ending support for live-service or otherwise network-reliant games, and its main demand is that publishers put end-of-life contingencies in place to allow continued player access (fan servers are cited as an example).

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Politics, Stop Killing Games, Moritz Katzner, Eu Citizens' Initiative, European Commission, Live Service Games