Stop Killing Games: Difference between revisions

On June 19, 2024, "Stop Destroying Videogames"<ref>[https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en "Stop Destroying Videogames"] ''European Citizens' Initiative.'' 19 July, 2024. Retrieved on January 24, 2025.</ref> was registered as a European Citizens' Initiative by Daniel Ondruska. A month and a half later, on July 31, 2024, the initiative began collecting signatures. Accursed Farms later posted the video "Europeans can save gaming!"<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI "Europeans can save gaming!"] ''Accursed Farms.'' July 31, 2024. Retrieved January 24, 2025.</ref> on the same day, encouraging European citizens to sign the initiative.  

For a European citizens' initiative to be valid, it must obtain at least one million valid signatures and meet the minimum thresholds in at least seven countries. The deadline of the initiative is on July 31, 2025, and as of June 25th 2025, there are over 500,000 signatures and the threshold has passed for over ten countries.  

Soon after, Thor of PirateSoftware published a video covering SKG, with the intent to negatively criticize SKG. His false assumptions were cited by Accursed Farms as the cause for signatures on the European Citizens' Initiative petition to dry up. Ross has stated that they did not initially make a response video directed at Thor, because "it might look like drama farming" for the campaign, but when the deadline started drawing near, Ross went through with it as a last ditch effort to save the campaign.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo "The end of Stop Killing Games"] ''Accursed Farms.'' June 23, 2025. Retrieved June 27, 2025.</ref>