Stop Killing Games (which just under a month ago was all ) has soared past its prior goals—not only garnering enough attention to have 's CEO , but now soaring past 1.4 million signatories on the European Citizens' Initiative.
is a movement started by YouTuber of Freeman's Mind fame Ross Scott who, after seeing The Crew shut down by Ubisoft with nary a scrap of after-life support in sight, wanted to make sure it didn't happen again.
We're talking about EU law here, so any spoofed [[link]] signatures—or even just people messing up bureaucracy—would be struck from the record. The solution to this is, naturally, to get so many signatures you've got a buffer against potential buffoonery, whether well-intentioned and stupid or a deliberate sabotage.
This doesn't mean the EU must enshrine Stop Killing Games' desires into law, but it's a huge step forward—requiring the commission to state "the measures it plans to take, if any, as well as justifications, and an envisaged timeline for implementing the measures." If that succeeds, it'll go to the EU parliament to be discussed like any other proposal or law.
A [[link]] massive turnaround, all told—going from struggling at 500,000 signatures to far surpassing its goals, even getting support from one of the . While I'm sure game publishers might have a vested interest in stopping these discussions—they —the future's looking promising for Stop Killing Games.