Stop Killing Games' EU petition hits a million signatures, but "a significant number" could be fake

Campaign to halt online games becoming unplayable inactive wants much eligible signatures

The Stop Killing Games campaign's petition to the European Commission has deed a large milestone, surpassing a cardinal signatures. However, the YouTuber down this effort to halt companies from rendering games unplayable by shutting down their servers is inactive asking for much folks to get their pens retired and sign, owed to concerns astir fakery.

If you're retired of the loop, Ross Scott primitively launched Stop Killing Games backmost successful 2024, aft Ubisoft pulled racing crippled The Crew offline. Cue a batch of debates astir presumption of work which archer folks that erstwhile you bargain a game, you're not buying imperishable entree to it, but alternatively a licence to play it for arsenic agelong arsenic it exists.

"The European Citizens' Initiative has crossed 1 cardinal signatures. Except it hasn't," Scott announced successful a video update uploaded to his transmission Accursed Farms yesterday.

"This is going to termination morale, but determination are 2 things going connected here. The archetypal we knew was coming. Every clip idiosyncratic makes a mistake erstwhile they motion the Initiative, their signature gets invalidated. So that means we request much signatures to marque up for everybody's mistakes."

"That could beryllium a lot," helium continued, "I've heard 10% minimum, 20% is better, 40% should beryllium truly safe." The 2nd contented is that Scott says he's "received respective reports of radical claiming to [have spoofed] signatures connected the inaugural site."

"First off, I privation to accidental that this is not a Change.org petition. This is simply a authorities process," Scott continues. "Spoofing signatures connected it is simply a crime. Please bash not bash this."

It's unclear astatine this constituent whether immoderate folks spoofing signatures connected the EU petition mightiness extremity up being prosecuted for doing so, but it won't invalidate the run arsenic a whole. However, the information Scott's adjacent heard speech of specified a happening has near him unsure of precisely however galore existent signatures he's got. He reckons determination are "at slightest 600–700k" astatine current.

Hence him asking for EU citizens to support connected signing legitimately. As of writing, the EU petition is astatine 1,091,165 signatures, with a cardinal having been the extremity that would pb the European Commission to astatine slightest look into the issue.

It's worthy noting that Stop Killing Games besides has a UK petition, which presently has conscionable implicit 150k signatures, and looks acceptable to person a day erstwhile it'll beryllium debated successful parliament soon. That said, the UK Government person already issued a effect to that petition backmost successful February, which reads: "There are nary plans to amend UK user instrumentality connected disabling video games. Those selling games indispensable comply with existing requirements successful user instrumentality and we volition proceed to show this issue."

"I would stake wealth connected the EU inaugural delivering thing bully if it passes, but the UK has been much astir exhausting each options," Scott says successful the video. He adds regarding that erstwhile effect from UK politicians: "A subordinate of Parliament could sneeze connected the petition, and that would not beryllium a worse answer."