Stop Killing Games, a consumer movement designed to bring attention to the depreciation of online media, has gathered e…

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The Stop Killing Games EU petition has gathered over 1.2 million signatures, advocating against the practice of making games unplayable when publisher support ends. Video Games Europe responded by defending publishers' rights to discontinue online services when commercially unviable, citing security concerns with private servers and potential restrictions on developer creativity. The movement highlights tensions between consumer rights and industry practices regarding digital game preservation and planned obsolescence.

Stop Killing Games EU petition tops 1.2m signatories, prompting response from Video Games Europe

That’s fun (and sad), that people can join together in fight to keep access to their games (like this petition), or access to pr*n sites (anti ACTA demonstrations), but they feel fine when government is taking their freedom or do ugly things in other crucial areas.
What it tell about us? Looks like people are ready to be treated as a sheeps. They just want to have fun and something to eat, and governments can do anything then.

This is a direct consequence of having transformed games into a “service” to milk as much money as possible out of customers. Games were, are and should always be seen as a “product”. And good games always sold in the millions anyway since the days of Atari.

Glad to see so many gamers on so many different ecosystem consoles/pc can join together for a common cause!
Let see what it brings!