[HN Gopher] Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances
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Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances
Author : LorenDB
Score : 55 points
Date : 2026-02-23 21:04 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| cadamsdotcom wrote:
| Is democracy working?
|
| Don't want to get my hopes up, but I think this might be.
| joe_mamba wrote:
| _> Is democracy working?_
|
| If only it would actually work that easy for democracy(people's
| will) to control the actual important things of society that
| fuck us, like housing, money printing, immigration, tax % and
| where that money goes to, healthcare, foreign aid, jailing
| epstein clients, etc.
|
| Imagine if democracy actually worked.
| jacinabox wrote:
| Could be, if you can set up a millions of dollars regulatory
| apparatus to keep online some really old MMOs for the 100
| people worldwide who want to play them, there's really nothing
| you can't regulate.
| prartichoke wrote:
| This is a common mischaracterization of stop killing games.
| It does not propose publishers keep games online
| indefinitely, but to provide the bare minimum to the
| community to host them if they decide to shut the servers
| down for good. If the 16-year-old Unturned dev could do it,
| so can AAA studios
| lyu07282 wrote:
| As long as people are sufficiently misinformed and politically
| uneducated, they believe in democracy working. So it's possible
| yeah!
| krige wrote:
| Thanks, "Thor".
| intothemild wrote:
| I would hope that he has either changed his tune (unlikely) or
| is fuming (likely)
| preommr wrote:
| Advances to round 2/7 to be able to do a powerpoint presentation
| so that companies will, at best, be forced to put some pointless
| label as a legal loophole, that consumers will promptly ignore
| because everyone will have it and it'll be meaningless.
| HiPhish wrote:
| I think Stop Killing Games is more important than just "oh noes,
| they took my toys away". Looking back, video games have been the
| gateway to computing in more than one one way. Before home
| computers people had game consoles (which were cheaper than
| computers) or arcades. Before iTunes and app stores there was
| Steam. Before the modern smartphone apps there were Wii channels.
| Maybe in some cases the games came technically later, but they
| were the initial contact for the broad masses.
|
| What I'm getting at is that it has usually been through games
| that practices in general computing have been established. If
| Stop Killing Games is successful it will have much bigger effects
| on general computing. And I believe that this is why you keep the
| same false accusations getting repeated over and over again (e.g.
| saying that SKG would require publishers to keep supporting a
| game forever). I know it's said not to attribute to malice that
| which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but at some point
| the pattern becomes too clear not to notice. All of big tech
| stands to lose eventually if SKG succeeds.
| gchamonlive wrote:
| Have you played The Talos Principle 2? Yep, games are toys!
| It's nothing more than that. What we fail to realise in our
| industrial society is that toys are a fundamental piece of our
| culture, they enable learning lots of different skills that
| wouldn't be possible in the "real world", they foster
| creativity, problem solving, bonding and cooperation...
|
| Toys are just toys, and yet they are the most important things
| we have. I honestly think the technological progress catalyzed
| by games is a byproduct, a huge one, but not central to the
| industry. We only think technology is the most important thing
| because we live in a world in which overvalues technical
| prowess in lieu of culture.
| lyu07282 wrote:
| There are a huge number of people who deluded themselves into
| reflexively protecting the interests of hundred billion+ dollar
| industries. No malice required for that, they also aren't
| stupid, propaganda works.
| AuthAuth wrote:
| This really is the white pill young people need to not hate
| democracy and its probably the worst most unlikely one to pass
| through.
| petcat wrote:
| Gamer Rage has always been the worst political hill to die on.
| zamadatix wrote:
| I really need to get pill-pilled so I can keep up with what
| people are saying these days. From Urban Dictionary:
|
| > 1: being aware of a difficult situation or position and
| having a fighting "can do" attitude and not giving up, plus
| accomplishing said thing(s) within the difficult situation. 2:
| being optimistic, not merely through gut feelings but via
| having thought about a situation enough to understand how to
| get through it successfully
|
| > Tom: How'd you get to the top of this business in just a few
| months of work?
|
| > Jim: Working hard, working correctly, and taking the white
| pill.
| lopatin wrote:
| Can someone please ELI5? I've heard much about it but still, with
| all the drama, I still don't get it.
|
| SKG is an initiative that will force game publishers to keep a
| game online, provided that people have paid for it, and the
| publisher is not bankrupt? Is that right? What does it have to do
| with democracy?
| lyu07282 wrote:
| > Is that right?
|
| That's the lie being told to stop stop killing games, so no.
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