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Final count for Stop Killing Games petition verifies 1.3 million of its 1.4 million signatures, well above the minimum to be formally considered by EU politicians

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They threw out all of Sideshow Bob’s votes from the pet cemetery.
Stop Killing Games volunteer Moritz Katzner has shared an update on the popular European Union Citizens‘ Initiative to its official subreddit. The EU has successfully verified 1,294,188 of Stop Killing Games‘ 1,448,270 signatures, easily clearing the one million minimum count it needed to move forward in the process.
Under an infographic breaking down the votes by EU country, Katzner explained that the team had initially planned a big rollout of the news further down the line, close to Stop Killing Games‘ next meeting with the EU Commission. According to Katzner, this smaller announcement was made because „We didn’t want to present our case unprepared, unintentionally leak information to lobby groups, or worst of all burn out our team.“
Katzner also requested that people show patience for the volunteer team running Stop Killing Games. „You’re not talking to some abstract institution like the EU, you’re talking to real people“, he said. „Yes, even the mods are real! In fact, you’re talking to someone who’s about to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 in about 30 minutes just to decompress after a stressful week.

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