The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'

The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' (www.pcgamer.com)
from atro_city@fedia.io to gaming@beehaw.org on 25 Jun 12:19
https://fedia.io/m/gaming@beehaw.org/t/2347210

“Companies just started taking away your purchases, nobody stopped them, and it slowly got normalised.”

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Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz on 25 Jun 13:27 collapse

Its OK to blaim PirateSoftware for killing the movement with his blatant and explicit lies.

the_q@lemmy.zip on 25 Jun 13:33 collapse

What’d he do it say? I’m ootl.

osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org on 25 Jun 14:17 collapse

tl;dr he sandbagged the movement when it was beginning to build momentum with a bunch of, what would charitably be called, misunderstandings of the whole point.

It's covered pretty thoroughly here: https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo?t=1117

Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz on 25 Jun 17:07 collapse

Given he contradicts himself multiple times in an effort to make the movement look incompetent, I would say it was more than just a misunderstanding.