As much as I want this shit to go through, I know it won't. I've seen so many of these "please give us X signatures and the billion-dollar company will actually listen to us this time we promise!" come and go and nothing ever comes of them. It's like a FOTM game; for a week it's super popular and has everyone talking about it and playing it, then it's time in the limelight is gone and nobody ever discusses it again. Remember REPO? Yeah, me neither!
If it passes, the companies will swear up and down that they won't heckin' pull the plug on their always-online shit, then they'll do it anyways.
If it fails, nothing will change and the status quo will be maintained.
NOTHING EVER HAPPENS

Okay.

moldman won
louis rossman won
gamers won
pirate cuckware lost
publishers lost
jews lost

Why are they trying so fucking hard to turn SKG into another Gamergate?

Looks like another article is out folks!
Gaming Journalists are doubling down on defending PirateSoftware and calling SKG a Gamergate movement.
>This is a massive win for fans of the movement, no doubt triggered by increased exposure from controversial content creators like PewDiePie, MoistCritikal, Asmongold and even Elon Musk. But at what cost..
How the fuck do we stop this?

not video games eceleb tranny go back to /pol/ >>>/pol/

>>714923074
Rent free, Ross

>>714922858 (OP)
Yeah, just like USB-C failed and Apple is still using Lightning.

>>714922858 (OP)
It's not the billion dollar company that they're trying to get to listen, though, it's the government. Fuck off you retarded shill.

>>714923905
Apple maliciously complied. A non Apple cable limits charges at 5W while an Apple branded cable charges at full speed.
Look at the DMA thing going around.

The video games industry will no doubt do the same with Malicious compliance, by making every game an expirable service.

>>714923870
You will seethe and cope faggot and we will win

>>714922858 (OP)
>IT WILL KILL LIVE-SERVICE GAMES!
Good
>IT WILL KILL GAME DEVS!
Not my problem
>THINK OF THE INDIES!
Why should I?

I don't want blizzard to win

I can't see this ever being successful, if anything they'll make it so all games from now on will have those annoying terms and conditions contracts you have to read and accept when you boot up the game

>>714924050
It's still better now with Apple doing what it's doing.

>>714923562
>but at what cost?
the cost is literal all internet scum shills and marketers banding up together to kill it
that's how afraid they are

>>714924725
I thought this is new? SKG started 40 years ago?

>>714923450
>troon flag
You can always bet someone with a troon flag will say the most idiotic shit

>>714922858 (OP)
I don't expect this to pass or EU to do anything.
What i want is people to know that they're being fooled with the "buy" word.
And it's too late, linus tech tips talked about it.
Now everyone knows.

>>714924884
i am fully convinced that reddit types were tricked into being 'anti-capitalist' (or, appearing that way, seeing as they have no real convictions)

because it makes others who are genuinely anti-capitalist look bad. nobody with any sense wants to be associated with fags and commies. it benefits the capitalists to have all of their opponents dragged down by that filth.

They really wasted time getting 1 million signatures for a judge to tell them you can't own a service

>>714924401
>le epic joker

>>714923450
This latest generation has mostly been conditioned from birth to sympathize with, defend, and unquestioningly support large corporations.

>>714928920
Or maybe older and smarter people recognize it's not the governments job to tell you to be a better consumer.

>>714929073
I hope you get everything you want and I hope it kills you

>>714922858 (OP)
>Petition.org petition
Vs
>Actual government petition that has legal weight that can be enforced.
Things do happen when they're done properly and with the right people

>>714929235
So much for pretending to be the enlightened adult in the room. That fell apart fast.

>>714923450
what do you think gamergate was about?

It's the same thing here, calling out bad business practices.

>>714931521
No it isn't. The Crew dying and getting pulled wasn't a bad business practice, it was normal. Find another virtue to signal.

>>714922858 (OP)
>false-flagging corpo shill at it again
if you think it's not gonna work, then why not ask how to make things work instead of trying to demotivate everyone? oh wait why am I asking, you're clearly an industry spook

>>714924775
who's responsible for this anti-semetic image
tell me now or else you will go to jail for this goyim

>>714931967
>how to make things work
First answer, what's broken? Keep in mind you can't own a service.

Also, how is saying businesses should be allowed to fail shilling for businesses? That's just normal capitalism.

>>714931631
shit my bad bro

>>714923870
newfag

>>714932206
If games are services (which current EU law would suggest that the vast majority are not), then I want it codified into new law, and I want the exact term of said service slapped front and center on the box/purchase page.

>>714924050
Anyone i know uses USB-C, apple are retarded if they think that people will use their slop tech. What is funnier is the EU just released enegry efficiency data and battery regulations.
>New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets start applying
>batteries must last a vertain minimum amount of recharges
>batteries must be replacable
>phones must be repairable
https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-durable-energy-efficient-and-repairable-smartphones-and-tablets-start-applying-2025-06-20_en
God i love the EU. I unironically can't wait for them to get their hands on videogame publishers.

>>714922858 (OP)
This shit was actually made by autistic people
This doesn't help video game preservation, it just allows sloppy games that nobody is playing to be forced to stay alive.
My proposal
>If a company goes under, they are forced to release all source code and assets
>If a game license is expired, it is required to upload as shareware
>All video games should be publicly available for purchase. As long as the company that developed the game still exists I should be able to buy it along with the original hardware

>>714933230
manufacturers are gonna throw a shitfit because now they'll have to make phones thicker to isolate the battery (they don't want people having access to phone innards), and they won't be able to brag about their shitty waterproof certification (that stops applying in a year or 2)
>>714933274
>keeping games playable does not help video game preservation
did you eat a bowl of stupid for breakfast

>>714933274
>sell company to themselves for $1
>ruins anon plan
Moron.

>>714924775
Nice image compilation you got there. It's not a Suprise since it's a basic conflict of interest between game corps and wanting to continue their bullshit. I really dislike their response statement, it feels GPT generated for some reason lol.

>>714933512
>did you eat a bowl of stupid for breakfast
I mean I guess if you just stopped reading half way instead of the whole post, it would seem that way.

>release the source code
>no one cares

>>714933274
>"SKG is retarded! Here's my better proposal!"
>suggest something even more retarded and unreasonable
holy fuck you're retarded

>>714922858 (OP)
we wouldn't have refunds on steam and lootboxes wouldn't have gone away (at least until gooners and zoomers made gacha viable) if it wasnt for movments like this

>>714922858 (OP)
>please give us X signatures and the billion-dollar company will actually listen to us this time we promise!
It's a legal initiative requiring the EU commission to draft a response and solution to the problem. They do not have a choice but to do something. If the end result is not satisfactory then so be it, but they cannot simply ignore it.
>then it's time in the limelight is gone and nobody ever discusses it again
see above, people's interest in the initiative doesn't matter once it gets the required signatures
>If it passes, the companies will swear up and down that they won't heckin' pull the plug on their always-online shit, then they'll do it anyways.
And then be fined millions upon millions of euros until they plug it back in (whether that means getting servers back up or offering an offline version).
>If it fails, nothing will change and the status quo will be maintained.
Correct. But at least we'll know where we stand, and that not even the most consumer-friendly legislative body is willing to do the right thing.
So what's the problem again?

>>714933274
>Forced to say alive
Being able to boot up the game is being forced to stay alive?
god you're so fucking stupid

>>714922858 (OP)
Nothing needs to happen because nothing is wrong. This is just overreach by preservation shills.

>>714933274
>>If a company goes under, they are forced to release all source code and assets
oops sorry, we deleted those years ago
or we're selling ourselves to a bigger company who will keep that IP on the shelf forever
>>All video games should be publicly available for purchase. As long as the company that developed the game still exists I should be able to buy it along with the original hardware
this is 10,000x more ridiculous than anything anybody has accused SKG of trying to push
you're asking companies to continue manufacturing consoles that are 50 years (or more) out of date for the single-digit people who want to buy them every year
also
>it just allows sloppy games that nobody is playing to be forced to stay alive
just make a fucking offline version, you don't have to keep the servers running forever

>>714934436
>It's a legal initiative requiring the EU commission to draft a response and solution to the problem
There is no problem.

>>714934610
>shills
you guys have really been pushing the whole "no u" thing since the initiative was revitalized
you cannot shill something that isn't for sale

>>714934610
>nothing is wrong
>videogame publishers pulling games from your library is not wrong goym

>>714934701
Over a million EU citizens think there is. If the commission comes to the same conclusion as you then so be it but they will be willfully ignoring the desires of their population.

>>714934701
according to over 1 million citizens, there is

>>714923450
Why are you constantly promoting this nobody troon in every fucking thread, even those tweets have zero engagement other than you posting it here all the fucking time. Stop trying to make it into a gamergate, faggot. Let the autist be attention starved.

>>714923450
>every thread until you like it
fuck off

>>714923450
trans people are pro-corporation because corporation said trans rights

>>714931631
No it wasn't.

>>714934712
Ok shill
>>714934772
>>714934793
That just means a million people get to hear how they're wrong in the upcoming hearing.

>>714935070
The Crew has peaks of like 2 users per month. Nice try.

>>714935136
you're not even worth replying to, I can tell you don't even believe your position

>>714931631
There's nothing normal about a single player game arbitrarily being taken from paying customers

The best thing they could have done to this initiative and try to shill against it. We probably wouldn't be here shitting on shills and bumping the thread if there were no shills.
But instead we have shills and it's so easy to blow them the fuck out. The jeets are extremely retarded and the americans (which aren't even being paid to shill, they do it out of loyalty to their masters) feel physical pain whenever we attack their precious billion dollar corporations. We simply cannot lose and all because our enemies are ridiculous.

>>714922858 (OP)
At the depression stage now, I see corpo-chan

>>714935449
This, but you.

>>714923074
BASED

>>714935573
Ok shill

>>714935835
The funny thing is Ubisoft wouldn't even have to keep a server up or give away binaries or anything. The Crew would still be functional if they just removed the call to their authentication server

>>714935216
>it's fine to steal as long as you only have two victims per month

This just further supports why Pirate is an insufferable faggots

>>714936657
/pol/ and twitter are pretty much how cons get their spin or narrative to push before it hits the mainstream discourse

>>714936446
"If customers stop buying, then removal isn't theft"

>>714936657
>>714937067

>>714937315
Sorry buddy, it was already boughteded at point of sale

>>714922858 (OP)
I hate the eu and hope nothing that is born in eu bullying first worlders works.

>>714935064
More like Troons are anti-Libertarian since Libertarians hate Troons. Never met a Troon that loves corpos, but they fucking HATE Libertarians.

>>714938071
>Never met a Troon that loves corpos
KEK

>>714937940
Not their problem now is it?

This thread is full of retards who only follow whatever the opinion is of the current popular eceleb of the month.
I hope live service does and the EU does nothing about it

>>714922858 (OP)
Signed and sent

>>714922858 (OP)
>I don't believe in X but instead of going on with my life I'll make several threads a day about X thing that I don't believe in
feeling a little bit hot in the oven ain't we, Moshe?

SPOT THE SHILL

Corporate shills exist and they use a variety of rhetorical and psychological manipulation techniques to further their goal. These can include:

>Demoralization
Doomsayers. They pretend to be supportive of the initiative while talking about how much trouble the movement is in, or how they don't think it'll succeed.

>False calls to action
'What do you do? We have to do something! How do we fight back!?' If you see someone saying those things then they're a shill. It might be paired with a link to an article about how someone who supports the movement might be racist. They want people to overreact, overcompensate, make stupid decisions out of panic, and bring outside identity politics into the discussion to muddy the water. It's like when a cop, disguised as a protester, starts talking about everyone in the crowd needs to 'take action'.

>I support the movement, BUT
They'll give mild concessions, type well, and pretend to be on your side while expressing worry about semantic bullshit. Their job isn't to convince you, it's just to create the illusion of conflict within the community. It looks good to outsiders.

>Chudposters
They type shitty on purpose and talk about communism or whatever. Same job as previous example, they want to create an illusion of inner conflict. Or they're shitposting.

>GELBOORU is in support of Stop Killing Games
This shit is in the bag.

Gamers are the lowest of the low.
They deserve to be abused by these shit companies.
At every opportunity when they have introduced anti-consumer stuff and money milking practices, gamers have loudly voted with their wallets: YES I WANT MORE OF THIS.
So fuck gamers. They deserve to be milked like cows.

>>714939427
This initiative will result in such a massive regulation, the GDPR, DSA, DMA, etc. will look like a children's book in comparison.

>>714940185
This but corpos and my cock

>>714938304
And now it is. Funny how that works, isn't it? Steal enough and someone eventually will notice even if all you do is take $20 from ten million people instead of ten million from one.

>>714939427
Yes, let's just sit around and do nothing...
You're the one sounding like a shill here.
They will be counting the votes and throwing out false and botted ones, we need to reach 2 million, so go and fucking cast vote!

>>714940220
good
game companies cannot be trusted

>>714923562
>How the fuck do we stop this?
You don't because most new sites are content mills meant to pump out as many articles per day. Even if they're poorly sourced and or written.

>>714934701
It wouldnt be registered in the first place if there wasnt. You cant just make an ECI for any minor inconvenience.

>>714933230
>smartphones and tablets must display information on energy efficiency, battery lifespan and resistance to dust, water and accidental drops.
>products placed on the EU market will also need to display a repairability score. The score, from A (most repairable) to E (least repairable)
Holy based, thanks for sharing the news, that was enjoyable to read