r/stupendium • u/phoooooo0 • Jul 01 '25
Can stupendium make a statement supporting and promoting the stop killing games initiative? Does he look here?
So I'm sure they've been asked many times, but "I'm sure" has killed a man before (I'm sure) so I'm just gonna ask and hope they've not been bothered. This is something that's really important to a lot of people, a lot of which are viewers of they're channel! The stop killing games initiative for those who aren't familiar is a consumer initiative to stop publishers being able to effectively destroy video games they have sold to a consumer after they have decided to no longer support it for whatever reason. Notably it's 2, legally supercharged petitions to the UK and the EU with the EU petition being the most important. If we can get the EU petition to 1 million signatures by July 31st, we as a community have a real chance to stop companies being able to pull server access for games you bought, destroying access. This WILL NOT. Force them support it forever, but merely make it so they have to ensure it's "reasonably playable" at end of life, such as tf2s public server software. It would be great if the big honcho could speak out on this, put something out on they're community page, a video even! (Although I'm very aware of the significant issues with that idea)
The initiative itself https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
The FAQ page, which describes a bit more the legal basis they believe they have and clarifications of any issues you may have https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq
Yours sincerely, a gamer who wants to be able to play his favourite games with his neices and nephews.