News Summary

• The Stop Killing Games initiative aims to establish regulations on how game publishers handle end-of-life for online games.
• In the UK, its petition gathered enough signatures to require a parliamentary debate, while in the EU, its Citizens' Initiative has now almost certainly cleared the bar for examination by the European Commission.
• Industry response has tended to be pretty dismissive – a little lip-service to the importance of keeping consumers happy, a lot of hand-waving about how what's being asked is impossible.