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"We have cleared the requirement": Stop Killing Games' EU initiative has almost 1.3 million verified signatures, clearing it for the next phase that's expected to take place next month

The signatures can be submitted to the European Commission

GamesRadar

As Ubisoft makes The Crew 2 playable offline, Stop Killing Games lead takes a moment to celebrate: "This is due to pressure from Stop Killing Games early on"

Back when the offline mode was announced, the lead said "I never thought it would happen before some sort of ruling from one of the consumer protection agencies"

GamesRadar

Stop Killing Games' EU hearing is seemingly "all but guaranteed" as verification shows "around 97% of signatures being valid": "It looks like my worrying in July was for nothing"

The EU petition will soon enter "the legislative phase — where the Commission and Parliament must decide how to respond"

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"Stop Killing Games has actually changed the timeline": As EU petition comes to successful close, founder says "unending overtime" has him ready to "take a break for the next 10 years," but he's sticking around until it's done

"You know that life-draining machine from The Princess Bride? Yeah, I feel like I might have had a round or two on that"

GamesRadar

Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you'

I don't think that's how any of this works.

PC Gamer

Stop Killing Games accused of "systematic concealment" of financial contributions because its figurehead spent too many hours volunteering to promote the campaign

"We've been doing this by the book, guys"

GamesRadar

Stop Killing Games' EU initiative hits 1.4 million signatures—and if at least 1 million are valid, it's off to the European Commission

Hot dog, they've only gone and done it.

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Stop Killing Games has crossed its threshold—but can it really make a dent in the AAA industry?

The European Citizen's Initiative has made tremendous strides, but trouble keeps brewing.

Destructoid

The big "Stop Killing Games" petition just hit 1 million signatures — in partial thanks to one dev who tried to kill it

#StopKillingGames completed its goal despite one prominent developer opposing the movement.

Windows Central

Stop Killing Games surges past its goals, but a possible signature spoofing campaign could cause trouble: 'This is not a Change.org petition. This is a government process'

Initiative founder Ross Scott says he's "in a complete fog" about how many signatures the Stop Killing Games petitions really have.

PC Gamer

Stop Killing Games reaches its 1 million signature goal after a desperate month where it seemed doomed to fail, but it's looking for more because "there's a chance a significant number of them aren't real"

"We have to keep signing in overdrive mode to make up for them!"

GamesRadar

The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'

"Companies just started taking away your purchases, nobody stopped them, and it slowly got normalised."

PC Gamer

UK government says it won't change the rules on publishers taking videogames offline after selling them: 'We have no plans to amend existing consumer law on digital obsolescence'

It will "monitor the issue", however.

PC Gamer

2024 was the year gamers really started pushing back on the erosion of game ownership

Talk about getting owned.

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Petition Aims to Make Killing Always-Online Games Illegal in Europe, Targets 1 Million Signatures

Petition is aiming to get one million signatures to potentially get laws in place to make it illegal for video game studios to shut down always-online titles.

GamesRadar

After 10 years, Ubisoft's always-online racing game The Crew has snowballed into a massive consumer rights campaign that's now looking for 1 million EU signatures

The Stop Killing Games campaign has its "biggest and most ambitious chance" yet

PC Gamer

If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe

A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers "killing games."

PC Gamer

UK government responds to Stop Killing Games petition, and it's not good: 'There is no requirement in UK law' that forces companies to support old software

It's not the end of the line, but it has to be discouraging.

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Gamers seek legal win that would stop developers from rendering online games unplayable: 'It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media'

The organizer of "Stop Killing Games" hopes to get France and other governments to examine the legality of live service shutdowns.

TechRadar

One fan of The Crew is considering pursuing legal action over the game’s shutdown

YouTuber Accursed Farms is considering starting a lawsuit over the shutdown of Ubisoft's The Crew.

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Building firms go to the wall as housing market falls away

Construction firm debt defaults are up 16 percent, liquidations are up 72 percent, and those still working say it's getting tougher by the week. Jonathan Milne reports.

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