newkindJul 2, 2025
Dolphin Emulator

Signature collection for the #StopKillingGames initiative against planned obsolescence of video games is ending in a few weeks. If you're from Europe, please sign the petition and support game preservation!

For EU citizens: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

For UK citizens and residents: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

Why we support it: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2024/12/02/dolphin-progress-report-release-2412/#whats-up-with-the-blue-banner

Jul 2, 2025 at 7:00amWeb
Show threadEsiJul 2, 2025

@dolphin Would love to sign this but I am a bit confused of if I can. I am from Europe, but not the EU. My country (Iceland) is part of Europe but not EU. It is part of the EEA though.

The EU link does not have my country listed.

Show threadkablobetonJul 2, 2025
@esi Your country has to be part of the European Union.
If you're not, you can still spread the word to EU citizens!
Show threadEsiJul 2, 2025
@kablobeton yeah that seems to be the case. Just wanted to be 100% sure given the fact the original post mentioned "Europe" as a whole.
Show threadBig Pawed BearJul 2, 2025
@dolphin now if the UK hadn't brexited,
Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSCJul 2, 2025
@dolphin I only play standalone single player games that run 100% on my local machine without any need for Internet connectivity. Then again, I always thought the entire point of computer games was that you could play them alone without having to interact with other humans.
Show threadmilagemayvaryJul 2, 2025

@LordCaramac @dolphin

The pool of new single player games that do not require an internet connection grows shallower by the day & the average publisher seems to be leaning towards requiring an internet connection.

I see a growing list of games being played today that will become fragments of memories & VODs with little to no recourse to revive the game into a state that resembles the original experience without accurately emulating server services.

Not fun.

Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSCJul 2, 2025
@milagemayvary @dolphin Well, I don't need any new games as long as the old ones still run in an emulator. Most of the games in my collection are still for MS-DOS.
Show threadmilagemayvaryJul 2, 2025

@LordCaramac @dolphin

I feel it, however that also reads a bit like, "Oh well, I got mine."

I have a MiSTer, and plenty of dusty old games I haven't played thoroughly buttttt, I would also like to enjoy new (at least to me) experiences, and usually I play games years after the original release.

Without adding a planned end of life for future gaming, your stated situation will be likely impossible or exceedingly difficult for future generations.

Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSCJul 2, 2025
@milagemayvary @dolphin I think that within less than 50 years from now, the collapse of industrial civilisation will have progressed so far that most people won't have access to any kind of computer anymore anyway. Things like AI or the Internet will be wild stories children find rather unbelievable. We are already living in a Dark Age, because what makes such an age dark is the fact that there isn't much of a historical record, and in our case that is due to the fact that almost all of our information is stored in digital form nowadays, and what isn't electronic is mostly printed on cheap paper that will turn to dust within a century or two at most. We won't leave anything to the future but a toxic wasteland.
Show threadXerz 💗Jul 3, 2025

@dolphin o, it already got over a million signatures and more than 7 countries with the threshold exceeded

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