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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46809135

The stop killing games campaign is about preventing game publishers from intentionally destroying their games after official support ends.

Sign here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Finland over here in the lead. Northern Europe pulling the weight for Southern Europe, ~~except Norway and Iceland.~~

Edit: TIL Norway and Iceland are not EU members.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Norway and Iceland are not proper EU members, only EEA members, so they are not allowed to petition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

They can advocate their European neighbours to sign.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

except Norway and Iceland.

I mean, hardly seems fair to blame them for that. This is an EU initiative thing, and they're not in the EU.

This is like me saying "lots of US states turned out to vote for Harris, but the Canadian provinces and territories have not been pulling their weight at all".

EDIT:

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

European Union

European Citizens' Initiative

Stop Destroying Videogames

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I did not realize that both were not in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Meanwhile, in Southern Europe: "What's a video game?"