There are “challenges concerning scaling up companies, attracting financing” and “managing cyclical waves of labour lay-off”, the Commission announcement stated.
So they don‘t actually want to do anything right now because the same scummy companies that kill live service games are laying off workforce en masse as well? Ugh, I didn‘t expect much but that‘s rich.
They‘re basically saying: „Apologies, but we can‘t improve things right now. You see, the industry is too rotten already.“
As expected from the EU commission that is just as corrupt as AAA studios.
Sounds like an excellent reason to never buy a non indie game again.
Stop Killing Games should be asking for donations to get the people involved to have meetings with representatives in the EU commission. The big, shitty gaming companies that are firing devs en masse and just out to make money have their lobbyists. If the SKG movement doesn’t organise, that’s all we’ll get: a communiqué to shut the hell up.
Didn’t Ross mention that taking donations could jeopardize the movement, since the EU has strict rules?
I’m curious about that. Democracy Internation has a course on how to fundraise for an ECI
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I think the main reason he didn’t want to take money was because he himself doesn’t think can handle such a campaign or lacks the will to do so.
Yeah, that’s plausible for sure given how humble Ross is… but for some reason I recall him saying quite early into the campaign (which I may be recalling incorrectly since it was almost a year ago, in many 2+ hour videos) that the EU had very strict political lobbying laws.
Receiving funds was a no-no, and even putting up a billboard would have ran foul of the rules and invalidated everything.
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I was under the impression that Ross had people prepared to meet with the representatives and present the initiative in case it does go through in the EU. Because it’s not like he could do it himself considering he’s not an EU citizen.
Did anyone actually expect the EU to regulate a multibillion dollar industry because it’s trending on social media?
I mean to encourage people to actually do something as sharing a post on social media isn’t activism.
No of course not. Only what you approve as activism is activism 👌 And using official channels is certainly not activism.
using official channels is certainly not activism.
Isn’t that called “lobbying”?
TIL voting is lobbying
Voting is activism?
Lol what a hot take.
No, we expect them to regulate a multi-billion dollar industry because that’s what governments do. Healthcare is a multi billion dollar industry. So is agriculture, and many others.
- healthcare: lives & health at stake
- agriculture: environment & health at stake
- video games: ?
one of these is not like the others
sorry, bruh: on a scale from critically important to idgaf, this ain’t ranking
What you’re missing is that after Brexit the EU is desperate to appear to citizens that they’re listening and this would be such an easy win that yeah, I really expected them to not only listen but actually get their fingers out of their collective arseholes and do something about it.
Blah blah funding. Sure, start by targeting games that sell over X units or Y euros in revenue.
If the article is correct then it’s a massive missed opportunity.
They made it further than my country ever will.
Have you read what a citizens initiative is? Have you read about the other successful ones? or do you just spew bullshit online before reading more deeply?
Give me an example of a “successful one”. I’ve read only two initiatives have lead to law changes. One on the minimum cage sizes for farm animals being slightly bigger and one on banning pesticides that ended up with slightly more oversight on their use. All the others that passed only resulted in a statement by the government with no legal changes.
That’s 2 out of 10, not some hundreds. So if we’re going by the odds, SKG has a 1 in 5 chance of getting a law passed. Better than nothing.
Nope, and the suckers who did can suck big, fat ones.
