Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'
2026-04-22 10:34 UTC
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@wioum@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 10:44
Hopefully we wont see bad actors just pivot to f2p and have a few microtransactions to actually unlock the games.
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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 12:01
Games should be required to have reproducible source for all components (client and server) sent to that very the European equivalent of the Library of Congress is, to be made available in the Public Domain whenever the publisher stops publishing them.
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@wanderinglurk@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 13:40
Wup, there’s management. Let me guess what they’re talking about. “You, sir, are mad! Dinosaurs are reptiles! They must be cold-blooded!” “Now, you listen and you listen good: Birds are one of the closest living relatives to dinosaurs we have. And I don’t need to tell you they’re all warm-blooded.” “Do you know how difficult it is to maintain thermostasis for an animal so large? They’re cold-blooded, I tell you!” “Let me tell you something. There’s evidence to suggest that Velociraptors had feathers. Feathers! What does that tell you?” It’s amazing that Ross Scott has gone from delivering the funnies to absolute morale boosting for the gaming media.
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@nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-22 23:20
what is that weird fake blizzard grifter with the hair doing now is he alive still
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@stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 18:27
This is a masterclass in “pick your one thing in life and focus on that.” I’m highly pessimistic that the spirit of this legislation, which I wholly support, can ever be enshrined in law with enough specificity that it works the way we want it to in the cases where we need it to, without becoming a truly undue burden on small developers or forcing all publishers to just work around it in some way: like taking everything to a subscription model going forward.
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@OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 16:23
But what does Pirate Software think of the situation? That’s what I really need to know. His dad worked at Blizzard, y’know.
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-04-23 07:11
If only people were willing to fight this hard for important things…
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@Blackmist@feddit.uk 2026-04-22 16:38
Who will win? One million angry gamers, or one little bribey boy? We shall see.
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@QueenMidna@lemmy.ca 2026-04-22 20:44
To think that the guy that wrote Freeman’s Mind would go on to such heights. Proud of you, Ross.
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@Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 15:15
To think all of this happened because one person really liked The Crew of all things.
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@CannedYeet@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 20:16
Just create a voluntary certification that a game or developer does whatever it is you want them to do and boycott anyone that doesn’t. This is like a law that says guac should be free at Chipotle.
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@gnufuu@infosec.pub 2026-04-22 17:08
The full hearing has some gems such as [Catarina Vieira drowning the EU Parliament in gamer memes](https://youtu.be/QXdmoeaYZ9Y?t=1207)
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@Muehe@lemmy.ml 2026-04-22 17:07
Man fuck Axel Voss! Damn copyright shill. Guess we can take solace in the fact that he seemed to be the only one clearly taking the publishers side here. And if I'm not mistaken, the European Commission representative argued in his reply to Voss (around 12:20) that "collective management organisations" or "cultural heritage institutions" might well be allowed to preserve games that are not commercially available anymore already under the current framework.
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@TachyonTele@piefed.social 2026-04-22 14:36
This is what a honest lobby looks like
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@Tiral@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 19:19
I really hope this goes through for obvious reasons. But it would be a 2 fer because it exposed the Pirate Games A hole as a neoi baby narcissist.
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@SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 15:57
Just found out about Stop Killing Games from Path of Titans releasing a skin where proceeds go to this cause! I of course am now a proud owner of the skin.
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@super_user_do@feddit.it 2026-04-22 16:50
I'm about to cry
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@Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-22 21:13
Presumably because you want what they can provide you. Its not rocket science my guy.