Oh, the drama! 🙄 Apparently, some folks are crying 😭 because their precious video games are being “killed.” Yes, you heard that right, “killed.” As if Ubisoft is going around with a digital axe 🪓 murdering virtual worlds. The horror!😱 And now, a fancy pants politician from the European Parliament, Nicolae Ștefănuță (bless his heart 🙏), has jumped on the bandwagon. He even signed a petition! Can you believe it? A politician actually doing something other than lining their pockets? 🤯 Is this the end times? 😵💫
The “Stop Killing Games” campaign, a movement so profound it makes saving the whales 🐳 look like a toddler’s tea party ☕, is gaining traction. Apparently, delisting a game is now equivalent to genocide. Who knew? 🤔 Ștefănuță, in his infinite wisdom, posted on Instagram (because that’s where all the serious political discourse happens 🤳), declaring his allegiance to the cause. The petition, with a whopping 1.35 million signatures (mostly bots, let’s be real 🤖), has surpassed its goal. So what? I bet a petition to get free pizza 🍕 every Friday would get at least 10 million signatures.
This whole thing started because Ubisoft, the “evil” corporation 😈, dared to take down The Crew. Boo hoo. Cry me a river 😭. It’s their game, they can do what they want with it. Don’t like it? Go touch some grass 🌳. GOG, bless their nostalgic hearts ❤️, tried to be the hero by keeping Warcraft 1 and 2 alive, but even they couldn’t handle Blizzard’s wrath 😠. It’s a dog-eat-dog world 🐕🦺, people. Get over it.
Ștefănuță, our shining knight 🦹♂️ in slightly tarnished armor, declared that “a game, once sold, belongs to the customer, not the company.” Oh really? So, if I buy a car 🚗, I can demand that Ford keeps making parts for it 50 years from now? 🤣 Good luck with that. The official Stop Killing Games Bluesky (who even uses Bluesky? 🤷♀️) also posted about it. But will this actually change anything? Probably not. 🤷♂️
Video Games Europe, representing the big bad publishers like Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard, chimed in with a statement that basically said, “We do what we want.” They claim that taking games offline is a “multi-faceted” decision (aka, it’s about money 💰) and that private servers are too risky because they can’t control the “unsafe community content.” Oh no! Not unsafe community content! 😱 What ever will we do without corporate overlords censoring everything we say and do? 🙄
But wait, there’s more! The EU petition hit 1 million signatures, so now it might actually get discussed by people who have real things to worry about, like, you know, running a continent. 🌍 And the UK petition has over 150,000 signatures, which means it might get debated in parliament. Maybe they’ll even pass a law forcing companies to keep every game ever made online forever. Because that’s totally feasible. 🤡
So, there you have it. The “Stop Killing Games” campaign, a noble cause for the truly bored and easily offended. Will it change anything? Probably not. But hey, at least it gives people something to complain about on the internet. And isn’t that what life is all about? 🤪
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