The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repair them. We seek this as a statutory consumer right.
The original petition failed due to two issues:
UK government misinterpreted what the petition is about and didn’t really answered to what was being asked
early general elections canceled all ongoing petitions at the time
This attempt has a new, reworded petition to, hopefully, make it simple and clear enough to avoid any additional problems.
There are two thresholds for UK petitions:
10 000 signatures: official government response
100 000 signatures: petition will be considered for debate in Parliament
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Does Ross/Accursed Farms, the person who started this movement, not count?
It’s good, he’s the originator, but the reach in Europe is not that great and there have only been a few multilingual channels that have picked it up.