The Stop Killing Games campaign has been dealt a major setback in Europe, as the European Commission declined to propose legislation requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable. The movement, formally submitted in the EU as the European Citizens’ Initiative “ Stop Destroying Videogames ,” was built around the idea that publishers should not be able to make games unplayable after ending official support, especially when those games were sold to customers as complete products. In January, the initiative was confirmed to have secured 1,294,188 verified statements of support , passing the one million threshold required for the European Commission to formally examine it. It was later presented to the Commission in February, followed by a European Parliament hearing in April and a plenary debate in May.…