I also love this part:
Earlier this month, game publishing trade association Video Games Europe said the initiative’s proposals “would curtail developer choice”
Well, yes, that’s the point of pretty much any regulation about anything. Curtailing the choice of people abusing the system.
In short:
The complaint accuses the initiative of “systemic concealment of major contribution,” violating EU stipulations requiring citizens to report any sponsor contributions over €500.
The complaint cites PC Gamer’s interview with Scott from June, in which he said “there have been many weeks on the campaign where I’ve been working 12 to 14 hours a day to keep things moving to get signatures.” That promotional work, the complaint argues, amounts to “€63,000-147,000 in professional contribution” if he’d charged a “market rate” of “€50-75/hour.”
It’s also not how the EU’s disclosure requirements work. As Scott notes in the video, the EU’s citizens’ initiative rules say that “individuals providing non-financial support, such as volunteering, are not considered sponsors under the ECI Regulation and do not need to be reported.”
If the petition heads to the Commission after its petition deadline on July 31, we can expect to see even more exciting rhetorical maneuvers.
I sure hope that the EU can withstand these 4D chess 900 IQ rhetorical maneuvers.
“Look at all this paid labour he’s been doing, if he’d been getting paid!”
Does the argument work both ways? If effort is the same as being paid for. Does that mean pirating a game is the same as buying it? After all it’s basically the same effort these days.
Of course the argument doesn’t fly, as you cant actually buy a game anymore, just a temporary license for an undisclosed amount of time.
Ross isnt the movements founder, other people started the citizens initiative. He says this in his videos multiple times.
I believe he is the founder of “Stop Killing Games” however the EU petition is by “Stop Destroying Videogames” a different, but aligned org. They often just get lumped together as “Stop Killing Games”, hence the confusion.
Right, but the complaint is wrong. They are filing against the citizens initiative, which Ross is not the founder of. Then the media outlet is conflating the two in their article title, which makes things worse.
Well it’s crazy that they’re accusing him of giving too much of his own time.
I really hope the Stop Killing Games initiative changes something as I want to own my (single player) games forever on every store (not only GOG as it’s not so Linux friendly despite the heroic games launcher).
Tells you that the guy behind it is causing some folks in the halls of power to get some uncomfortable questions.
I’m pirating any game made by any producer that oppose SKG.
If they want to antagonize consumers. Consumers will be their enemies.
This is just someone in the industry trying to buy time and throw gunk in the works of the initiative. Unless they are aggressively retarded they knew this challenge would fail, they just want to buy time.
Oh wow… an anonymous complaint that is complete nonsense… whatever will they do. I at least expect the EU to correctly dismiss this pathetic attempt.
