r/StopKillingGames

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Farewell Letter:

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>But we don’t want the story of Star Conflict to end along with the servers. Tomorrow, after the servers go offline, we’ll release Star Conflict Community Edition, a special version of the game that will let you run a local server on your computer and return to Star Conflict years from now. See familiar ships. Step into your old hangar. Show the game to friends. And maybe one day, someone who doesn’t even know about Star Conflict today will launch the Community Edition and hear “Welcome back, captain” for the first time. And then the story that began fourteen years ago won’t end for good. Because now, its continuation will depend on you.

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It's open for 8 weeks (until November 26) so if you can, sign up and send your feedback about your opposition to EU Kids Act, and please let them heard that this bill won't help protecting kids and at worst, it'll ultimately destroy a industry.

Please be polite, make sure you're explaining the problem correctly and try to refrain from showing hard feelings towards the EU Commission or Video Games Europe. Otherwise, they won't take it seriously.

All feedback received will be summarized by the European Commission and presented to the European Parliament and Council with the aim of feeding into the legislative debate.

If any GD players here are connected with the wider gaming scene, you might have heard about the "Stop Killing Games" movement, who have for years campaigned for more democratic control of games, such as being able to play online games and host private servers even after official support stops. They have particularly persisted in the last few years, enduring increased pressure from governments and corporations who have pushed for essentially surveillance policies under the guise of "child protection."

The linked video reveals potentially the latest and most drastic measure of anti-democratic crackdown in the video game scene. While we all know Geometry Dash is much more than what would normally be considered a video game, these leaked records reveal (as typical with politics being completely out of touch) absolutely baffling and borderline delusional wording potentially labelling any online "service" where users congregate (no jumpscare, sorry) and media is shared as a "video game" in their book, and therefore subject to the act's absolutely ridiculous surveillance policies. This is especially problematic as all of Geometry Dash's servers are located in Sweden, an EU country; thus, despite people all around the world contributing to the rich landscape of GD, our modern economic reality enables half-coherent rambling uttered by people who've never engaged in the video gaming scene in their lives to potentially compromise the entire thing.

However, just like the guy in the video being hesitant to jump to action, I believe more information and context about this situation is needed before any action can be taken to address this on our part. We must establish a more solid information base before it would be consequential to do something like contact RobTop directly. In the meantime, I implore the community to stay on alert.