"The timing is impossible to ignore": Stop Killing Games says Ubisoft attended "invitation-only" meeting with EU Commission ahead of response to campaign sparked by The Crew shutdown, but it "was not invited"
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Cross posted from https://lemmy.zip/post/66384776

Official response from EU Commission after attending invite only party hosted by lobbyists, attended by Ubisoft and other corpos

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/document/download/75d642bc-6ff5-4713-b1cf-14f4aaf15869_en?filename=C_2026_4110_EN.pdf

Open letter from SKG addressing EU Commision (aka industry/lobbyist talking points)

https://x.com/StopKilingGames/status/2062131784926519424

Video from YongYea if you’d like to listen to the situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15hYar2g3T8

  • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    1 天前

    The Commission has carefully examined the request by the ECI

    We’ve carefully decided that €1000 in each of our pockets today beats the millions saved each year by the virtue of consumers having consumer rights.

  • Sunshine@piefed.caMEnglish
    27·
    1 天前

    We need a master list of every company opposing stop killing games. It’s gonna be hard to hold those greedy game companies hiding behind their shell game associations accountable.

  • kalapala@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    29·
    1 天前

    What a surprise. Not expected at all. How unbelievable. I would have not guessed this kind of behavior from the big corporations.

    Oh wait. I meant the opposite.

        • ironblossom@feddit.orgEnglish
          15·
          1 天前

          Yes! You should know that if you vote right, you support EC being susceptible to lobbying

          • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
            71·
            1 天前

            Zwiebel is correct, the EC is not elected by the people but by Parliament (and suggested by EU member states.)

            • flyingSock@feddit.orgEnglish
              5·
              1 天前

              and national parliament is elected by people. Specifically to make choices delegated to them by the people. Choices such as who to nominate for ec. Vote for better parliament within the nations, get better ec.

              • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
                21·
                1 天前

                sure sure, but the statement of Zwiebel stands true, that the EC isn’t elected by the people.

    • Babalugats@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      1 天前

      So that I can include countries that aren’t in the EU, as this community isn’t restricted to EU (even though the others aren’t strict). As I am in the process of making the UK list (it is HUGE… 😩 ) - the idea being that in the end we all know which sites to purchase from to expect tax etc… Although many of the sites still have (for example) UK or Norway options that the VAT is calculated before shipping.