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Advocates for preserving access to online games after official support ends by providing players with tools to self-host servers or enable offline mode. This would prevent games from becoming unplayable and is part of a larger movement ("Stop Killing Games") to ensure player ownership and longevity of games.
The Stop Killing Games movement is about preserving access to future online games, especially after official support ends. So if the game can’t be made to run offline, or servers be self hosted, the tools are given to the players so the people who bought the game can run their own player payed for servers. That way games aren’t killed after official support ends. If passed it would not just affect the EU but all games sold internationally, because it would cost more to make 2 versions. The petition has been around for about a year, and only has 2 weeks left now before the window to get 1 million signatures for the European Citizens' Initiative(a way for the EU citizens to put forth ideas for the EU parliament to make into laws) The initiative hit a road block about 10 months ago when a popular YouTuber came out against it, after completely missing the point of the petition. (He thought it was asking for developers to provide support for their online games in perpetuity, which is clearly an unreasonable expectation; among other misconceptions) That killed the movement’s momentum, and signature’s rates started drying up making it look impossible. But the petitions garnered nearly 100,000 signatures in a few days, and hit the half way point of 500,000 recently giving me a new hope. So please sign the petition here if you are an EU citizen, and if not contact any friends you have in the EU, or just spread the word. Thanks https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home