The "Stop Killing Games" initiative has become very notable in that it's a grassroots movement started by one single random youtuber with the goal of making a petition to the EU parliament, which apparently (and hopefully) has got enough signatures that it will force said parliament to discuss and do something about it. It has been so notable that it even has got mainstream media coverage in several countries.
People are celebrating that the one million signatures threshold has been passed, and they are acting as if this was some kind of victory.
I myself am a bit more pessimistic than that. And that's because I know how politicians operate, and particularly how the criminal pundits in the EU operate, when it comes to the "rights" of giant megacorporations.
I fear that even if a million of those signatures are legit, and thus the petition is forced to be discussed in the EU parliament, they will just discuss it for five minutes and then unceremoniously vote "no" on it and toss it out and forget about it. Maybe a couple of representatives will vote otherwise, but the overwhelming majority will just vote "no" and move to more "important" matters (ie. how to screw EU countries and citizens even more than they already have.)
We already saw this with the UK parliament. Twice. The EU parliament will not be any better.
And just like the UK did, the EU will very likely do the same thing, ie. completely (and maybe deliberately) misunderstand what the petition is about, arguing something like "it's unreasonable to demand companies to keep running game servers for eternity, even after it has become commercially untenable" (even though that's not what the petition is asking.) After all, it's much easier to oppose a straw man than the real petition.
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