Stop Killing Games Gets 1.3 out of 1.4 Million Signatures Confirmed
More than enough to reach the floor of the European Parliament.
Despite no longer dominating the discussion and having largely faded into the background in recent months, Ross Scott's Stop Killing Games initiative – aimed at preventing developers from rendering their games unplayable – is alive and well, recently achieving perhaps one of the most significant milestones in its history to date.
As announced by Moritz Katzner and later reaffirmed by Scott himself, the final signature count shows that out of the 1.45 million signatures the initiative collected, nearly 1.3 million – roughly 89%, according to the team – were confirmed to be legit, more than enough to meet the European Parliament's threshold of 1 million signatories from at least seven EU countries.
Looking at which countries contributed the most, the breakdown largely correlates with population sizes, with Germany, France, and Poland leading the way at 233K, 145K, and 143K signatures, respectively. On a per-capita basis, however, Finland emerged as SKG's most enthusiastic supporter with 54 thousand signatures from a population of roughly 5.4 million, meaning about 1% of all Finns signed the initiative.
"I'd say we're definitely in the top three when it comes to low rates of failed signatures," Katzner comments. "We're sitting at around 10%, while the best-performing initiatives tend to fall in the 10-15% range, which puts us firmly in the upper bracket. Some initiatives see failure rates as high as 20-25% and still manage to get over the line, but it's worth noting that the overall sample size is quite small, only 11 initiatives."
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