Nicolae Ștefănuță, the Vice President of the European Parliament, has said that he “stands with the people” and supports the Stop Killing Games campaign.
Ștefănuță took to his own Instagram reel to support the campaign, going as far as to post that he signed the petition himself.
“I stand with the people who started this citizen initiative. I signed and will continue to help them. A game, once sold, belongs to the customer, not the company, he said.
The post was soon screenshots and posted by the official Stop Kiloing Games Bluesky account.
Top Killing Games has now accumulated over 1,350,000 signatures at the time of writing, well above its 1 million target.
Will Stop Killing Games Make a Difference?
Despite the Stop Killing Games campaign achieving its goal and going viral with content creators and media outlets, Video Games Europe offered a statement on the campaign.
“We appreciate the passion of our community; however, the decision to discontinue online services is multi-faceted, never taken lightly and must be an option for companies when an online experience is no longer commercially viable. We understand that it can be disappointing for players but, when it does happen, the industry ensures that players are given fair notice of the prospective changes in compliance with local consumer protection laws,” they said.
“Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable. In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create,” the statement continued.
As for what’s next for the Stop Killing Games campaign, we’ll have to wait and see, but we’ll likely be hearing about the movement over the course of the coming months.
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