Stop Killing Games

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[EU/UK] Stop Killing Games:

The consumer movement to stop game publishers from destroying older games with kill switches.

The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.


UK Petition

EU Petition


SKG Website

Mastodon

Discord

List of Actions taken


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UK Final Day 14/7/2025

EU Final Day: 31/7/2025.


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Ross, in his video with GamersNexus mentioned that games nowadays have expiration dates. I think that's a great way of framing the issue and making it clear to gamers what should change.

Unfortunately, I do not have a good idea how to present the problem of "Games today have expiration dates" to people in a succinct manner. My image editing skills aren't good, so spamming various communities in different images to make them aware of the issue won't really work. Does anybody have ideas?

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Please support the initiative of Stop Killing Games!

EU Petition.

UK Petition

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Please keep signing so we can push for our games to be left in a playable state with a end of life plan after publisher support ends.

EU Petition.

UK Petition

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Please support the initiative of Stop Killing Games!

EU Petition.

UK Petition

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Please support the initiative of Stop Killing Games!

EU Petition.

UK Petition

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Please keep signing so we can push for our games to be left in a playable state after publisher support ends.

EU Petition.

UK Petition

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This is the weekly post about how many signatures have been collected this week for the EU petition on the stop killing games campaign to prevent game publishers from intentionally destroying their games after official support ends.

Please support the initiative of Stop Killing Games!

EU Petition.

UK Petition

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Sign the EU petition to stop the destruction of games!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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The stop killing games campaign is about preventing game publishers from intentionally destroying their games after official support ends.

Sign here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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This is the weekly post about how many signatures have been collected this week for the EU petition on the stop killing games campaign to prevent game publishers from intentionally destroying their games after official support ends.

Sign here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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Webinar featuring the ECI spokesman and the Czech organiser talking about the Stop Killing Games European Citizens' Initiative

Daniel Ondruska and Pavel Zálešák from Stop Destroying Videogames explain how their entirely volunteer-driven campaign has reached nearly half a million signatures without any external funding. They share how they mobilised a global gaming community using Discord, Reddit, and grassroots influencer outreach to advocate for the preservation of digital heritage and gamer rights.

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Aside from a misleading message at the beginning saying that games are meant to be abandonware. Games should be able to played if you purchased them.

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