Stop Killing Games: UK Edition

[@TheDragonfly256]

At this point when I hear "consumer laws" I will always picture a rally car with 2005 graphics.

[@OneWingedRose]

lmao, same!

[@patrickbyrne5070]

In fairness that’s exactly what the UK looks like

[@mc_zittrer8793]

@@patrickbyrne5070 Along with Gothic?

[@HoobleMcFlooble]

UK "not completely hopeless yet" - nicest thing I have heard about my country in a while.

[@dinitroacetylen]

To be fair, this is more than what can be said about most other countries.

[@freedomgoddess]

@@dinitroacetylen most of these are non-western so technically the truth but europe has ~45 countries and the uk ranks near the bottom between them. belarus mentioned.

[@awsomebot1]

It's disheartening how often I tell someone about the campaign and they immediately tell me they don't support it because of "they can't host servers forever" or "studios should retain IP rights" or "they can't leak server software because anticheat" and whatnot. And then I link them the FAQ and they quickly change their minds. So much misinformation out there. Good luck everyone.

[@crazyinsane500]

Well it's very specifically because one KZbinr went off on spreading misinformation, these *specific* pieces of misinformation, because they had a vested interest in Rivals of Aether 2, a game that's reliant on a central server so the devs can just take the money and run one day. Same guy also turned out to slide into the DMs of kids to solicit them for erotic art, knowing full-well they were minors.

[@madrox1989]

You can thank ButtPirateBadware for using their audience reach to spread emotionally charged misinformation.

[@Kameth]

God, the "they cant host servers forever" line. It's like beating your head into a brick wall telling people we're not asking for that, we're asking for them not to yoink our paid property out our pockets.

[@dwavenminer]

@ On top of that, its kinda funny to see that the early access game they are developing themselves, HeartBound, isn't being worked on. To quote the top review: "Honestly, I cannot recommend this game right now. I had originally bought this to support the dev as I had followed his streams, and he was working on it fairly consistently, or so it seemed. The only dev update this year for this game was a meme post for April fools. This at the time may have been funny, but now seems pretty out of touch since it was the only 2024 update. Now, he barely works on it, if at all and appears to have changed professions somewhere along the line to a full time streamer. The fact that there are multiple threads in the HeartBound reddit asking if this game is a scam should be a massive warning sign" or another one: "Hasn't gotten a single update in a full year. Very much been abandoned by it's creator" or my fav: "Similar to a mana gem, this game goes neglected. The only update in 2024 was an April fools patch."

[@johnclark926]

The Pirate Software videos are listed literally the first two results when you search up “stop killing games”, and his first one is the only video with 1 million+ views. It is so insanely unfair that the literal singular critic of StopKillingGames absolutely dominates the conversation around the subject.

[@alexjohnson5114]

I forgot about Ross being a time traveler. I wonder if he’s still stuck on the moon.

[@RetroBiker-sm3sd]

In puzzle agent I think we see him in a winter setting, not sure how he got off the moon though.

[@Peweskimooxy]

R-Man can be in multiple places and times at once, it's why he talks the way he does.

[@paleflame]

Not sure about that, last time I checked he was stuck in hell.

[@omnius1357]

Yeah, golden times are over. I'll better start up my HoMM3 cd, if I find a cd-drive on a PC..

[@PeachyPixel28]

Deep Ross lore

[@GYTCommnts]

No matter the final result of this campaign, and the misunderstanding from a lot of people of the objectives, as a lifetime gaming enthusiast that love video games as an art expression apart from being entertainment, I want to THANK YOU, ROSS, for all your work. In my eyes, you are a video gaming Hero.

[@S0ci0stan]

Pretty sure the majority of the "misunderstanding" is coming from one very spiteful individual who has been spreading misinformation about the campaign since Day 1.

[@jorge69696]

@@S0ci0stan That thor guy?

[@royalclodmus5969]

Making your pfp Vanced is crazy

[@Lucifronz]

It's nice that *some* public figure is doing something about it. It's not like the gaming corporations are sitting on their hands while trying to take away every right gamers have to own their games. We could all do something, sure, but without a reliable figurehead to get things moving, these things often fizzle out. People don't unite very eagerly for more than a day or two.

[@GYTCommnts]

​@@royalclodmus5969 😉 Just as an expression of principles. I was on this platform almost from the beginning, before the big "G" bought it. It's a complex subject because on one hand you have people like Ross, that lives from the content he creates, so some economic system has to be on the platform, but on the other hand, that doesn't mean that I have to agree to all the decisions made by the platform and how they treat some content creators and censorship.

[@chilldude30]

Crazy algorithm rec. Im a uk law grad currently working as a paralegal and in the process of qualifying as a lawyer. Definitely will sign and support. You did a great job with the wording BTW.

[@jdavis9381]

Louis Rossmann just announced his "Consumer Protection Database." A wiki cataloging consumer protection (or more importantly, it's absence) practices in companies. I feel like anyone interested in SKG would be interested in that as well

[@stevethepocket]

It's going to be a pretty big database when all is said and done.

[@chilldude30]

I just emailed my local mp about this issue. Thanks for bringing the petition to my attention. Any uk citizens who read this, why not do the same. Your mps email address will be shown on the confirmation page of your petition signature.

[@gav102k]

I don't have much faith in our government to go against corporate interests, but I've signed!

[@redeye356]

Thank you from across the pond.

[@ZachariahJ]

They need some wins right now! They aren't exactly making themselves popular. But as you suggest, if a big tech company leans on them, they will fold, without hesitation.

[@00Mike55]

Thank you from across the pond as well, wish we could help with these matters as well...

[@0uttaS1TE]

​@ZachariahJTo be fair, when does a UK government make themselves popular? We literally had a new PM every year for the past 5 years or so

[@Jackfromshack]

British goverment are too busy doing proxy war against Russia. Do not have much hopes here

[@jalanganje2532]

Heres hoping the British government doesn't make the same mistake as the US and try to ignore the problem. Good luck ya tea lovers!

[@dwavenminer]

Oh the current "British" (nothing British about it) goverment will absolutely ignore it, just like the +3million (and still counting) petition for a new election

[@pianospawn1]

I don't know if you know much about our government...but I don't have high hopes

[@Kameth]

Knowing our government, they are equally likely to one of three things: Ignore it, make it worse somehow, or actually implement great changes and giving true legal digital ownership but tell no-one and keep it completely quiet ruining their reputation amongst people of the electorate that cares about this.

[@El-Burrito]

From whenever I've paid much attention to one of these petitions, barely any MPs actually show up when a petition is up for debate in parliament. Basically nothing ever comes of it so I'm not getting my hopes up.

[@patrickbyrne5070]

Cheers mate!

[@Furey24]

SIGNED. I'M DOING MY PART!!

[@Tedus987]

'Would you like to hear more.'

[@Victorpollack]

@@Tedus987 It's "Would you like to know more?"

[@Tedus987]

@Victorpollack are you seriously grammar nazi'ing my reference?

[@Victorpollack]

@Tedus987 Sorry haha 😄 Just couldn't stand that it wasn't accurate 😅 😂

[@MrSirHenryMF]

"Here's the petition we've submitted, and before anyone gives us crap about this..." *cough*piratenepobaby*cough*

[@dwavenminer]

I honestly don't see why people see Pirate Software as pro-gamer, I mean lets just look at the top review for his, still unfinished early access game, HeartBound: "Honestly, I cannot recommend this game right now. I had originally bought this to support the dev as I had followed his streams, and he was working on it fairly consistently, or so it seemed. The only dev update this year for this game was a meme post for April fools. This at the time may have been funny, but now seems pretty out of touch since it was the only 2024 update. Now, he barely works on it, if at all and appears to have changed professions somewhere along the line to a full time streamer. The fact that there are multiple threads in the HeartBound reddit asking if this game is a scam should be a massive warning sign. " or a more recent review: "Similar to a mana gem, this game goes neglected. The only update in 2024 was an April fools patch." ...please tell me how this sort of dev is pro-gamer in any way...

[@RobixCube12]

@@dwavenminer He's also building a live service game so laws like this would hurt his pocket

[@numnaut1314]

You can take the man out of the Blizzard, but you can't take the Blizzard out of the man.

[@Leandra001]

Thor been having Drama. Kinda defended him on that crap. But admit I don't like the guy. Someone question Why I don't like him. I said he was against the SKG's campaign. Got responded ok got it invalid excuse then. Sadly, people like them believe jerk offs spread misinfo or not drawing a middle ground on discussion just annoys me.

[@seekyunbounded9273]

​@@dwavenminerwait wait wait, heart bound isn't even out yet official? What the fuck.

[@DavidShepheard]

One thing to bear in mind Ross is that the first petition was a petition to the old Conservative Party government and this petition is a petition to the new Labour Party government. So it's not "the UK government" - it's a totally different Prime Minister, different Ministers and different MPs who have the majority. You still might not win, but any pushback you got before does not apply to whoever responds to this petition. Try to reach out to British gaming magazines and tech TV shows. I think the BBC has something called BBC Click. If you can get stories into the specialist press and the petition gets big enough, you might hit the mainstream media and get approached to do a TV interview.

[@SableGear0]

UK People PLEASE push this! The Canadian federal petition fell through, the answer was basically "This isn't our problem, take it up on a provincial level" which makes no sense to me other than a diversion/refusal tactic. Other than the fact that Provinces handle taxes a little differently among themselves, this should have been a country-wide precedent. Hoping gamers across the pond can give this effort some heft!

[@existentialselkath1264]

Worst case scenario if this goes through, we get to see a bunch of out of touch politicians in Westminster try to comprehend live service games. Could be funny regardless.

[@chucklesdeclown8819]

ya, this is gonna be hilarious.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

The obvious solution is to remind them that the Internet is a series of tubes.

[@kveller555]

It's kind of nuts how the petition got to 1k signatures before the video was even uploaded lol. Hitting 100k doesn't seem so insane.

[@Gulag_Edits]

As a british citizen, I am now happy.

[@emenesu]

You must not be from Birmingham, good choice.

[@Ajee02]

Incredible, first of your kind

[@Tedus987]

Signed it. Partner signed it.​@@Ajee02

[@LazarheaD]

And owning nothing.

[@CampGareth]

It's more accurate to say I'm slightly less peeved now.

[@CaptainVVV]

Thank you. I have shared all of your viewpoints before I even started watching Freeman's mind so many years ago. I appreciate you fighting so hard for all of us

[@Sir_Newkirk]

History will remember you for a long time to come. Thank you Ross.

[@GagGreene]

Considering the UK government is currently covering up a grooming gang scandal I'm not expecting much of a response. However, this government might not even last out the year so see you all again in 6 months.

[@Chemicol3]

To say the UK gov is "covering up a grooming scandal" is a blatant oversimplification and you know it. The PREVIOUS government sat on inquiry findings for over a decade and did nothing, now those same MPs want another enquiry because they know it would stop a bill with actual protections for children from going through.

[@blunderingfool]

It's astounding, all they have to do is admit Pakistani men aren't like English men and go from there.

[@Victorpollack]

Who cares about grooming gangs when we've got games to save. Stay focused! (Jk)

[@CaptJABRONIE]

I'm not from the UK. I'm just leaving my engagement to boost the algorithm

[@DumbWithDom]

Same here

[@drone_ultrakill]

same with me.

[@brunoavalos4044]

we do what we can

[@therealmrglanet2127]

Let's make it interesting: Every comment that engages for the algorithm has to write 1 email or message to a KZbinr or streamer telling them about SKG. Ensure that you make an impact!

[@prowlingmonkey]

A petition suppose to last 6 months getting taken down after only a few weeks on the issue of games getting killed is a bit ironic

[@M2orNot]

Topic of video aside, I love that the background of almost all of these videos are rally games.

[@MisterA744]

It's almost poetic, because doing all this campaign work probably feels like going around in circles in more ways than one.

[@M2orNot]

@MisterA744 Not so much the going in circles part but a perilous and unforgiving journey across a hostile environment certainly sounds like it just as much

[@Ramonatho]

​@@MisterA744rallying is literally about NOT going in circles

[@Leandra001]

well he has to use that PC Driving Wheel somehow for how many years 😂

[@SnakebitSTI]

A journey through lots of twists and turns, no certainty about where you'll wind up, just a series of directions for the next turn to take? Rally seems apt, yeah.

[@longleaf0]

Instantly signed the petition. First I've heard of the UK petition, I really hope it takes off. Although tbh I doubt the government will do anything other than listen to the gaming industry lobbying them. Thanks for doing this, I appreciate it!

[@Other_Kev]

For practical purposes, breaking civil law is only really illegal if it costs the offender more getting it held up in legal gridlock compared to how much profit they make off of the offense.

[@stevethepocket]

It's almost like the whole concept of civil law is bullshit.

[@Doctor_Pazuzu]

I genuinley hope this campaign can do SOMETHING to stop games from being killed.

[@SodaOgre]

Signed and shared with everyone I know that could possibly pitch in. Fingers crossed for this, if it was ever going to be addressed and taken seriously I think the current cabinet is our best bet, the last one probably wouldn't have ever done anything about the problem anyway.

[@daisyrushton1574]

I think the UK government might really do something about this. Labour has a significant majority in parliament, but they aren’t interested in any policies that cost money. So a cheap policy like this could get some real traction!

[@blunderingfool]

Keep in mind they only have a majority because tory support fell out and moved to Reform. Still too many masochists that voted tory though. Labour had close to only 30% electoral support.

[@theonlyLoneWolf_]

Signed. Here's hoping this resubmission gets the same traction the last one did. Had it not been for the previous government calling a snap election like that, I feel like it would've gotten close to the 100k signatures. But gamers are fickle and lose interest in things quickly. So I worry if we'll even see 10k this time. Look forward to being proven wrong. Hopefully this additional comment boosts the seo to get more British eyes back on this.

[@stevethepocket]

"But gamers are fickle and lose interest in things quickly" I think that perfectly sums up why game companies and pretty much only game companies have gotten away with this for so long.

[@relvean5626]

You can win this for all of us Britain, don't let us down!

[@deek0146]

Oh, we absolutely will

[@Oberon117]

Signed. I hope Labour take a better look at this petition than the Cons did, it would be a great addition to consumer rights if something were to happen.

[@NeatWolf]

I personally had to struggle to get basic human rights in the UK so my expectations are limited BUT - I'm grateful you exist and proposed that - I'll share the hell out of this. Thanks for anyone signing! As my welfare adviser told in other circumstances: it doesn't matter if we win, the important thing is we officially set a precedent - so next time someone else brings this up, their armor won't be as shining as it used to be. (ok, he didn't say exactly that, but that's the gist of it :P)

[@blunderingfool]

By being born on this island or setting foot on it you get guaranteed human rights. You a grey-muzzle or something?

[@banjotheclown2189]

Gordon Freeman fighting to save the world of video games, because some people achieve greatness simply because they forgot to give up when their fight seemed hopeless

[@Calvin_Coolage]

He is the very model of a modern major general after all.

[@SheffieldJourno]

Signed and emailed my MP (for whatever that's worth). Cheers Ross, and team.

[@SnakebitSTI]

I like how the petition title is just legalese for "Stop Killing Games". Seems very appropriate.

[@acechappers]

Fingers crossed the petition gets a lot of signatures and the UK government does something!

[@DrLipkin]

Somebody get this to Phil DeFranco. He's covered the story before, and this is actionable info.

[@CampGareth]

Signed, here's hoping our government can do something for its citizens for a change!

[@GamerAddict7796]

Signed it! I have slightly more hope this government will respond somewhat positively than the last one so here's hoping!

[@hellblazerjj]

Signed and shared. Worth a shot, though the UK Government will likely do nothing about this. Or maybe they will since it's enough of an unimportant distraction from their perspective.

[@CyanMentality]

RIP Elder Scrolls Legends, shuts down at the end of January.

[@ianmitchell5979]

To anyone thinking that challenging the industry won't affect things, remember Ubisoft explicitly announced to the public that they'll work on offline modes for the last two Crew games, in response to the EU Initiative campaign. And that campaign isn't over yet. We CAN scare corrupt publishers into keeping games alive. We just need to keep pushing it.

[@SnakebitSTI]

More significantly than two games saved, it's a sign that Ubisoft is concerned about the initiative might succeed and bar them from killing more games in the future. This is a pretty common pattern when industries see regulation on the horizon. They'll start behaving themselves a bit to say "see, you don't need to regulate us!"

[@Calvin_Coolage]

To be fair, Ubisoft is also shockingly close to being bought or outright bankruptcy. I imagine their recent dire straits have made them desperate to claw back any goodwill they can.

[@DirtyHairy1]

I recognize that the term "video game" is historically founded in britain, hence I understand the phrasing. (in contrast to "computer game") Still it would not surprise me if someone says "video games are not being sold any more" and dismisses the whole thing :)

[@BigBeakson]

Thank you, you rock 👍UK Citizen here.

[@DonCarmolo]

I really hope the petition can make it to 100k.

[@craww1990]

I was activated like a sleeper agent

[@therealmrglanet2127]

"Aww yeah, I've been activated!"

[@brightdeathfriend]

Signed. I'll admit I'm dubious as to whether it will get the attention it deserves - being that this is clearly a corporate abuse of power and loopholes - but any attention the issue can get, the better. I shared it to my socials aswell to try and get more traction. Fingers crossed!

[@Drejzer]

Deja vu, I've been in this place before; Higher on the streets...

[@Wannabe_Baby]

Signed. I don't think our government will lift a finger to do anything about it but it certainly doesn't hurt to sign the petition. Ross, I wish more activists were like you. You put in the work.

[@chaotickamikaze]

godspeed Ross, I wished I could of done more here at down under after signing the petition back when it was active. Of course I'll still be spreading the message as much as I can.

[@Freelancer4tehwin]

I really appreciate your format for these videos, where you get to the point, and dismiss the class if they want to go. It's really useful to know I can answer the call to action while I listen to the rest of the video.

[@sapare7838]

Ross reminds me of the: Air Pirates(before my time, but heard of them before). Someone sick of not knowing what their legal rights are to the point of forcing the issue in hope of having resolution. I just hope that the outcome will be different today, and that even if not, that people are less petty. We shouldn't hate those that have the courage to ask the important questions.

[@twig5543]

Posted to as many discords as possible, sent to friends, signed. Thanks for spearheading this, Ross!

[@casperjones8476]

Godspeed you, Ross for this campaign!

[@Vondora]

I'll like and comment to help the cause. Go our UK brothers, do your part.

[@dwavenminer]

Ill sign it (again)... But i dont expect a single thing from it... The current petetions committee is utterly pointless, they don't read anything and give the exact same boiler plate repsonse to everything... Sure, previous petitions committees didnt do much... But they at atleast tried to make it look like they had bothered to listen...

[@UnNuclear]

Cheers from an American, you got this UK bros!

[@T-74]

Will definitely sign. The wording of the ‘UK petition proposal’ shown on this video and the one on the petitions site seems slightly different, however. Edit: the video already addresses this, whoops.

[@pcveteran1760]

Remember: Until these companies get themselves together one way or another, archive your digital stuff, whatever that be. Because these companies won't. Also, the KZbin terms of Service stops applying once you stop using this website. So you can talk like normal people without fear of censorship. The verbose Darth Vader language in these comments is really funny to read.

[@hshgf3410]

Done and done. Time to bug friends and family to sign.

[@SirRigbyBaconKaiser]

Finally I can do something! I dont have high hopes, but I'm not going to bring the party down!

[@TediI47]

Very wise for you to feature rally games whn trying to talk to the UK.! Hope this works!

[@xxCAH4EZxx]

I want them stop destroying video games- so Ross could continue creating Ross's dungeon

[@SnakebitSTI]

By my count, he's released 3 new Game Dungeon videos since starting Stop Killing Games. Go watch them!

[@xxCAH4EZxx]

@SnakebitSTI believe me I watched them :) And multiple times watched other videos. I just like Ross content a lot, so it's never enough for me

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

As American, I've nothing I can do but spread word suppose...

[@essex3777]

I don't know if the consumer woes are the fault of Reganomics but it feels right blaming Regan.

[@ChickenShred]

There are still American organizations that exist to preserve video games and their history. I recommend looking up the Video Game History Foundation.

[@TAP7a]

I really like the wording of the new petition. Super precise and direct. Signed.

[@acrylique2976]

I'm really curious how this will work out. And I'm even more curious what will happen if the EU petition will pass (signed that one already). Do politicians in the EU have enough power to push back against this practice? Or is the EU parliament going to be sued by ubisoft? Not ruling that one out.

[@LutraLovegood]

Commenting to boost engagement! Gonna rewatch this at the slowest speed too.

[@OneWingedRose]

Alright my fellow UK ppl! Let's get this done!

[@Burner_Eleven]

signed . Thanks for your hard work, Ross!

[@shawbag11]

Just signed i doubt we will get to 100k but hopefully 10k will happen. im really hopeing this movement makes a diffrence cus im soo sick of games i own being taken away from me just because the people who make them cant be arsed implamenting a end of life plan

[@blaiseoffury4866]

@@shawbag11 I believe we will get to 100,000 easily. Already a third of the way to ten K. The momentum we had with the last one was really positive as well.

[@Leandra001]

@@blaiseoffury4866 Yeah. Wasn't the last one hit like 350K But ended up being stale since then. So if the same people join for this one. Easy cap.

[@ScowlieMeerkat]

Russ out there fighting the power. Godspeed.

[@dr.robotnik3684]

Done, signed. Thank you for all your excellent work ❤

[@10upstudios]

hello ross from the past

[@Bluebedo]

May not be able to sign myself, but I've spread the word to those I know in the UK who can sign.

[@TheRealParadigital]

Signed… again. Wifey too. Hopefully this time the petition runs the course, and breaks 100k signatories, but I have a very strong feeling that this will get batted away to our existing statutory consumer rights whereby we can expect a product to last a “reasonable amount of time”. Reasonable is undefined in terms of absolution, but I would wager that for something costing

[@stevethepocket]

I feel like if that car didn't simply run out its period of free maintenance, but was actually Thanos-snapped out of existence, intentionally, by the manufacturers, there'd be precious few people arguing there's anything "reasonable" about it. And literally zero of those people would be arguing it in good faith.

[@TheRealParadigital]

@@stevethepocketThe problem isn’t one of the product no longer existing, it does, I still have “The Crew” installation files on my machine (and others may even have a physical copy). I still have the product, it just doesn’t work, which is akin to a broken car, not a removed one. To be clear, I’m not advocating that this stance is fair, or that it should be allowed to be legal, but within the framework of current consumer protection legislation, this is the situation. And within our current government not even able to stick to their own manifesto and treasury ruleset, I think we have an impossibly uphill battle to rewrite consumer protections in favour of this. I want “stop killing games to win”, but I fear this will be a political dead end.

[@stevethepocket]

@ A broken car can still be fixed, even if it costs money for parts and labor. A game, presumably, can't, and companies can and will sue people for trying. Plus, if that car "broke" because BMW sent a mobster with a machine gun to come riddle it with bullets in your driveway, there'd be hell to pay.

[@curlyparmesan]

So excited to see the petition reopen, lets go change the world!

[@skyjogger3256]

ross is a man of class playing colin mcrae in the sti

[@droid1008]

DONE! I was waiting for this petition for so long, finally I can help the cause

[@SPTX.]

I have concerns about the rewording shifting attention away from the deliberate nature of the kill switches.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Signed. Even if they side with the enemy, that just means it's going to be an even fight, with ample opportunity for trophies. Also, I'd bet good money on the notion that if TotalBiscuit was still with us, he would've been signal-boosting Stop Killing Games with a fervour strong enough to split himself in half. Hell, one time he laughed so hard that his guts came out, and still kept streaming Superfight.

[@stevethepocket]

On that note, I wonder how to get Yahtzee made aware of this.

[@ThePoshboy1]

I am Australian but hopefully you brits can fix the issue.

[@AceRevero]

All the best for the people who can voted in the UK!

[@Matt08719801]

Guild wars dropped support for windows xp a month ago , as much as i appreciate them up and still going 19 +years later i don't appreciate them breaking support on the operating system their code was originally built on

[@stevethepocket]

No one should be using a Windows XP machine connected to the internet in 2025.

[@SnakebitSTI]

That is a shockingly long support life for an already end of life platform with few active users.

[@lionocyborg6030]

Signed as soon as I saw your tweet.

[@Legather]

Signed and shared, fingers crossed.

[@GazzyW007]

8:17 God, its so nice to have a angle where one can say the UK isn't completely hopeless. It's been rough going.

[@Kameth]

Signed. My main concern beyond the government ignoring it is that they government has committed a lot of legislative time to pass their legislation - not a criticism, they won an election promising some fairly complicated laws to be passed - so I don't know if they'll be getting round to this in this Parliamentary cycle.

[@mrcheesemunch]

I strongly doubt this mess of a country will help but I signed again anyway!

[@CalavErik]

I'm sure we can win. This is amazing work, thank you.

[@FKProds]

PLEASSE SIGN IT

[@thescrewfly]

Okay, signed that. Apparently we're getting close to halfway towards the 10k target.

[@Stevo_1998]

I'm signature 3,905 _Hopefully_ this petition actually does something useful, although I'm still not holding my breath The current government (from the little I've heard of them doing anything tbh) isn't much better than the previous one - but, we'll see...

[@StopNightcoreV2]

1:40 Spotify did it with the Car Thing...

[@Smrda1312]

Yep thought of that too. But its in a way even more niche than video games. If this happened with dishwashers or televisions people would burn cities. (Not like we have great consumer rights with those either but at least they dont shut them off from a central server)

[@Mad_as_a_Swan]

@@Smrda1312 Between Smart TVs and the rise of Monolithic ISP/CABLE/Entertainment providers this may well happen in the near dystopian future.

[@stevethepocket]

And before that, Google bought out some smart-home device company just to shut it down because they were competing with the one Google was selling, and it resulted in basically bricking everyone's systems.

[@flamingneko6661]

I will forever miss battleborn

[@ehhorve857]

boy, do I have news for you! copied from @shumo7096 on 'games you can't buy anymore 3': You're kinda wrong about the "end of Battleborn" ! It is true that the game is no longer playable multiplayer as even private "servers"(they were just private lobbies) need gearbox servers to be online...but there still is a community that is active for it. The "official" (not really, was just shared by gearbox but not made by them) Battleborn server is active and...there's a "mod" called ReBorn that allows people to play through the story by bypassing the game's online checks, and the mod's creator ( Gweg 🙏) has plans to add coop and multiplayer in the future. The game may be dead but...the community's still alive and trying!

[@jorge69696]

Never played it but it's a shame I can't even try it against bots.

[@ehhorve857]

go watch 'games you can't buy anymore 3' and read the top comment.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

It truly was one of the games of all time. Miss my bois Rath and Oscar Mike.

[@sidequest22]

Signed, sent to my mates. Cheers Ross.

[@2Step2Hell]

Thank you for your hard work, I have signed the petition. I don't trust our parliament to do anything good about this, but we have to try!

[@magnusluigi1047]

I can only hope that this stays as "NOT COMPLETELY HOPELESS".

[@bw000m]

the time has come to annoy our british friends

[@jacobottesen5279]

Time to reach for the hundred thousand everyone!

[@OutlawDin0]

You've got my vote, mate. Unfortunately while I do live in Jersey, it's New Jersey.