cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2170141
Country Statements of support Threshold Percentage Signatures required Austria 10162 13395 75.86% 3233 Belgium 13911 14805 93.96% 894 Bulgaria 4597 11985 38.36% 7388 Croatia 4163 8460 49.21% 4297 Cyprus 565 4230 13.36% 3665 Czechia 7421 14805 50.12% 7384 Denmark 12032 9870 121.90% 0 Estonia 3035 4935 61.50% 1900 Finland 15319 9870 155.21% 0 France 49153 55695 88.25% 6542 Germany 98063 67680 144.89% 0 Greece 5018 14805 33.89% 9787 Hungary 9902 14805 66.88% 4903 Ireland 10353 9165 112.96% 0 Italy 24712 53580 46.12% 28868 Latvia 2679 5640 47.50% 2961 Lithuania 5123 7755 66.06% 2632 Luxembourg 946 4230 22.36% 3284 Malta 533 4230 12.60% 3697 Netherlands 26374 20445 129.00% 0 Poland 53599 36660 146.21% 0 Portugal 8402 14805 56.75% 6403 Romania 12377 23265 53.20% 10888 Slovakia 4987 9870 50.53% 4883 Slovenia 2473 5640 43.85% 3167 Spain 36391 41595 87.49% 5204 Sweden 19849 14805 134.07% 0 Just under 3000-4000 people are required per country in Lithuania, Latvia, Malta and Luxembourg. Come on now… that’s a small town and in some places even just a village. Are there really that few gamers in those countries?
"This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.
Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.
The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state."
Right there in black and white, one click away. There is no attempt to force companies to keep servers running, if you have a single player game then it can’t remotely destroyed by requiring a server connection that gets taken down without a patch to remove that requirement.