Stop Killing Games gains support from European Union parliament vice president

The Stop Killing Games movement continues to gain momentum and is now being supported by a vice president in the European Union.

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EU vice president Nicolae Ștefănuță has given a pro-consumer stance when it comes to video game sales and ownership. In a recent Instagram post, Ștefănuță openly broadcasted his support for the movement and committed to helping in any way he can. At the time of writing, the EU petition has over 1.3 million signatures.

"I stand with the people who started this citizen initiative. I signed and will continue to help them. A game, once sold, belongs to the customer, not the company," the Romanian EU vice president said in the post.

The news has since gone viral, and Ștefănuță went on to reiterate his stance by posting a screencap of the news in a new Facebook story.

The Stop Killing Games movement seeks to better regulate video games, especially those that go offline or become unplayable after purchase. Typically, publishers and developers will let the projects go defunct, leaving the games in a kind of limbo. These games can often be resurrected with unofficial community-built updates, patches, and even servers, but it's typically a grey area.

The SKG ethos can be summed up like this:

Videogames are being destroyed! Most video games work indefinitely, but a growing number are designed to stop working as soon as publishers end support. This effectively robs customers, destroys games as an artform, and is unnecessary. Our movement seeks to pass new law in the EU to put an end to this practice. Our proposal would do the following:

• Require video games sold to remain in a working state when support ends.
• Require no connections to the publisher after support ends.
• Not interfere with any business practices while a game is still being supported.