| Country | Statements of support | Threshold | Percentage | Signatures required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 10162 | 13395 | 75.86% | 3233 |
| Belgium | 13911 | 14805 | 93.96% | 894 |
| Bulgaria | 4597 | 11985 | 38.36% | 7388 |
| Croatia | 4163 | 8460 | 49.21% | 4297 |
| Cyprus | 565 | 4230 | 13.36% | 3665 |
| Czechia | 7421 | 14805 | 50.12% | 7384 |
| Denmark | 12032 | 9870 | 121.90% | 0 |
| Estonia | 3035 | 4935 | 61.50% | 1900 |
| Finland | 15319 | 9870 | 155.21% | 0 |
| France | 49153 | 55695 | 88.25% | 6542 |
| Germany | 98063 | 67680 | 144.89% | 0 |
| Greece | 5018 | 14805 | 33.89% | 9787 |
| Hungary | 9902 | 14805 | 66.88% | 4903 |
| Ireland | 10353 | 9165 | 112.96% | 0 |
| Italy | 24712 | 53580 | 46.12% | 28868 |
| Latvia | 2679 | 5640 | 47.50% | 2961 |
| Lithuania | 5123 | 7755 | 66.06% | 2632 |
| Luxembourg | 946 | 4230 | 22.36% | 3284 |
| Malta | 533 | 4230 | 12.60% | 3697 |
| Netherlands | 26374 | 20445 | 129.00% | 0 |
| Poland | 53599 | 36660 | 146.21% | 0 |
| Portugal | 8402 | 14805 | 56.75% | 6403 |
| Romania | 12377 | 23265 | 53.20% | 10888 |
| Slovakia | 4987 | 9870 | 50.53% | 4883 |
| Slovenia | 2473 | 5640 | 43.85% | 3167 |
| Spain | 36391 | 41595 | 87.49% | 5204 |
| Sweden | 19849 | 14805 | 134.07% | 0 |
Just under 3000-4000 people are required per country in Lithuania, Latvia, Malta and Luxembourg. Come on now… that’s a small town and in some places even just a village. Are there really that few gamers in those countries?
Theyre not telling you to shut up, they’re telling you the required treshold is reached and explaining to you there is no point in giving these countries ‘a final push’ so go home and actually read that comment.
They are dismissing the value of getting more of those small countries on board. Getting them past the threshold could also have an effect on the gamers in those countries. Who knows what kinds of people may have been untapped. Discarding them as irrelevant is counter-productive.
“Shut up, let the big boys do the lifting”. It’s the same attitudes that are pervasive throughout the union. The voices of those small countries are important. The line of thinking that small countries don’t matter fits very well with the “I’m just one person, so if I don’t vote, nobody will care”. We should be encouraging our brethren from smaller countries to be part of the democratic process instead of just excluding them. The Union wouldn’t listen to the Eastern States after Crimea’s invasion in 2014 and shrugged them off during the renewed invasion.
Imagine if we said the same thing about queers. “Nah, we don’t need their votes, they’re irrelevant, let’s focus on the hets”.
So yes, the implication of irrelevance bothers me because it’s deeper than just this issue.
You are annoying and stubborn.
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It isn’t the votes that are irrelevant, it’s the treshold. Just please read the explanation why that is, to me it sounds like you only read the first 4 or 5 words of that comment.
I don’t think you’re reading my comment in its entirety.
This is the important bit.
I did read it, i totally agree with you but me nor the person who wrote that comment said those votes or the people are irrelevant. What is irrelevant is reaching another treshold because there are already 7 met which is one of the two conditions. The one condition that isn’t met is the total of 1m regardless of nationality. I didn’t want to repeat the guy but apparently I have patience left to explain it. Wouldn’t need to if you’d just read the first comment instead of fighting everybody.
“Everybody”. It’s just you mate 🤷♂ And for a fight, I find this quite civil.
Wild guess, but I don’t think the people close to you are likely to agree with that.
That this was civil? We didn’t cuss each other out. If you want me to be less civil, just say so.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter. If this initiative makes it or not doesn’t matter that much to me. I’m not buying the games impacted by this, nor do I support the game companies that employ the practices.
Have a good one.