geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/24810676
geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/24810493
SKG has anounced the final, verified count of all valid signatures. 1,294,188 signatures out of an original total of 1,448,270 have passed the test making an invalid rate of only ~11%. An accompanying Reddit post said the following:
Hello,
Another announcement. Things are moving quite fast right now, and we’ve decided to share the final count with you ahead of schedule. Originally, this wasn’t possible due to certain background limitations, and our plan was to wait until shortly before our next meeting with the EU Commission.
At that point, we intended to reveal everything through a video, alongside a redesigned website, a restructured Discord, and several other updates that—ironically—I still can’t talk about just yet. We didn’t want to present our case unprepared, unintentionally leak information to lobby groups, or worst of all burn out our team.
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Tomorrow, we’ll also be sharing this information on our newly rebuilt or, in some cases, entirely new-media channels. Ross has kindly agreed to lend his voice and face to help with that rollout.
The handover is planned for mid to late February.
Cheers
Moritz Katzner for SKG
Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative with the goal of combating planned obsolescence in video games due to mandatory online functionality. It collected signatures up until summer of last year. Since then things have been relatively quiet around the initiative while the relevant authorities where checking each signature for its validity.
Forcing games to be playable offline or on LAN is a child hood memory/dream come true.
I miss the times, and it's insane it went away so fast.
Some of my favorite childhood memories are getting together with 2-3 friends to play ad-hoc Monster Hunter on PSPs. It's exciting to imagine what can be done now with a similar feature being a core part of a game's design.