Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

• Lightsong@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ELI5 this controversy? I’m out of the loop.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    youtu.be/GuTp4Am51i0

    There’s a group with a petition to “Stop Killing Games” which seeks to legally remedy the issue of game developers making games that are later turned off and left unplayable even in the case of them being single player.

    Thor or PirateSoftware owns a development outfit that makes indie games and he also does a lot of streams. He’s against Stop Killing Games, but doesn’t seem to even understand it, and has publicly spoke out against it, going so far as to spread misinformation about it.

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  • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have also been out of the loop too but went through the know your meme’s page.

    Pirate Software made a video a year ago criticizing the initiative on a very surface level and has continued to do so in streams. Guy who created/sponsored/however-that-works the initiative posted a counter-argument video talking about what the initiative would actually do. Pirate Software did the ol’ Internet Doubledown and in general was kind of an ass and kind of revealed some ignorance. Cue Drama.

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