Please continue to support the initiative. It's very possible some signatures are invalid and will be thrown out. The discord is currently aiming for 50% buffer, that is 1.5 million signatures
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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In the middle of the night they got a dozen new signatures per second, which I find highly suspicious
I hope someone didn't script it and cause the petition to be filled with mostly fake data
Could be suspicious but could also be because the EU is big.
Population 449,206,579
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_European_Union
53% of the population aged 6-64 play video games.
Sure, but I checked at 3am. On a work day
The chances that such a large amount of people, consistently, sign the petition over a timespan of half an hour or so that I checked, is suspicious
There are a lot of Europeans living abroad so who knows, but I agree, I'm pretty skeptical of such a fast rise.
I don't give a shit about your video games.
I'm signing this because it screws over capitalists.
[Insert "We are not the same" meme]
It doesn’t really screw them over much. They made lots of money before they started doing this BS. They’ll make lots of money after they start complying with it. It’s just them being dumb.
An older game may not sell as well as a new one but a dead game doesn’t sell anything.
Dead games don't keep players hooked on it. Players who are playing an old game, are not buying new games. If you kill the old game, the players are forced to buy your new game.
I think that's their intention.
Also there's the obvious: having all players validate against a service kills piracy and makes their usage trackable, but after a while the subscription profits shrink as players move on, and now the company is only getting 10x the maintenance costs covered by subscriptions.
I’m a retro gamer. Old games are not dead games unless it’s no longer possible to play them.
Look at Nintendo. They’re still selling the VS arcade version of SMB1 from 1986!
Yeah, no. Why would i pay anything for a more than 10 years old game that was dropped by the developers long ago? They make the main money in the first few months anyway, the rest in the following two years.
But honestly, I'm missing the part where they force companies to make their games publicly available x years after they sold their last copy.
KEEP SIGNING.
SIGN IF HAVEN'T
unless you're American you sit this one out.
But if you're in the EU and you haven't signed sign it now!
Need instructions for the other hundreds of countries in the world
Encourage your friends and online companions in the EU to sign if they haven't.
Anything Americans can do to support?
To be fair, you have more pressing matters at home. Focus and resolve those, so that we can all meet later and play all the games we want together.
But this seems sooo much more manageable than our shit
talking about it online helps. if you know people in EU you can talk about it with them personally.
Put pressure on the actual companies pulling this crap. I'm doubtful governments are going to do anything about it, but organized boycotts might.
Just spread the word and encourage friends from the EU to sign, sign and sign!
Holy moly
Wait I didn't even know the ban on conversion therapy and access to safe abortion initiatives succeeded as well!! https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/find-initiative_en
Yeah, they did a last desperate push in the last few days, especially in France.
That was crazy fast
I just wanted to sign it, and it said I already did. I definitely didn’t yet, and now I worry someone just used data from some address leak to bot sign for lots of people?!
Get in touch with the Spokesperson of the initiative at daniel.ondruska@gmail.com this need to be investigated further
Ahaha… found the issue between phone screen and… something. This petition has been going for almost a year already, and it can very well be I signed it a year ago. I thought this was something very new.
But thanks for your reply, that would have been my next step had I not found the origin date.