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Stop Killing Games

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[EU] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.


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EU Final Day: 31/7/2025.


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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lets be honest... if someone walks up to you and offers 2 fucking billion dollars for a block game you made on the whim.... youd take the money.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It still blows my mind that someone thought Minecraft was worth two billion dollars. ...in 2014. .......and they seemed to be mostly correct.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Mostly? Pretty sure Microsoft has seen s profit on that purchase.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't he already rich, though? Once you're over, like, $10mm, you don't really need to work anymore.

And then when he took the money, I think he just squandered it on bullshit.

If someone handed me 2 billion dollars I'd probably be building trains and houses, or maybe something for the climate crisis. Not jerking off alone in a house full of candy. He's a shithead failure of a human, if that's all he's done.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

As a millionaire i would definitely accept an offer to become a billionaire. When you already have enough for a carefree life, money becomes power instead and then you can exert your will on the world. I can definitely see how that is really tantalizing, especially nowadays where virtually everyone has an unspecified feeling of being powerless against the system.