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What are your thoughts about video game preservation? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I think its unnecessarily convoluted, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) are morons and need to get a life.

Including their cousins like the MPA and RIAA.

https://gamehistory.org/87percent

I am currently doing research around this topic for my University work and have created a google form for people to respond, but I need to make sure it is clean and respects everyone's privacy.

You can request my signal group through direct messages if you would like to fill it out once it releases, I have other plans to have a talk as a (focus) group.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It makes sense, unfortunately.

They don't want to compete with older games. For a time, new games would innovate technologically and qualitatively, but that isn't always the case anymore.

There are so many amazing games to play. If you wanted to, you could cut off all future content from this day on, and still have more than enough to remain entertained for the rest of your life.

Some studios are still pushing the envelope, but others have stuck with one "as a service" game for almost a decade now. Others still are making stuff that is objectvly unworthy of being played compared to earlier games.

If you can't make each game better than the last, people will just go back to the last game. But if you take away the last game, they'll go to the new game simply because the same game but worse is still better than nothing.

And that's true overrall, too. If you like games, but can't play your favorite game anymore, you'll probably end up trying to find something new.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

There are so many amazing games to play. If you wanted to, you could cut off all future content from this day on, and still have more than enough to remain entertained for the rest of your life.

If you can’t make each game better than the last, people will just go back to the last game. But if you take away the last game, they’ll go to the new game simply because the same game but worse is still better than nothing.

Isn't this true for every form of media though? Books, TV shows, movies, music; there are multiple lifetimes worth of content for anyone that wants to look for it. What makes video games so special?