Stop Killing Games update - UK petition to see a debate in Parliament

A short update for you on the Stop Killing Games movement - a UK petition is actually going to Parliament for a real debate.

The UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport did actually reply to the petition back in February 2025, although the response was pretty much what was expected on these sorts of things giving a very wordy answer that basically boiled down to "nothing will change".

However, the petition did cross over the 100,000 threshold (189,888 total) to be considered for a debate in Parliament. Petitions that cross over this number are never guaranteed to see a debate, as they still have to actually be selected. Seems this has been popular enough that it now has been, and a date has been set for November 3rd, 2025 which will be shown on the UK Parliament YouTube channel.

Not surprising though, considering the massive push for it in the EU that saw about 1,448,270 signatures of support, with the UK still pretty close with the EU some lawmakers have no doubt taken notice of what's going on there.

I'm hoping we'll see a proper adult debate on this, but I know how the UK goes with this sort of thing - but it's progress at least. Let's wait and see what happens. I'm not expecting any big surprises or sweeping changes, but at least the ball is rolling on it.

Really, a lot of this could be sorted by major publishers releasing server files to the community when they move on from games. Just look at The Crew Unlimited community project to show how it can be done.