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Dr. Quadragon ❌

Publishing "games as a service" without clearly defined exit strategy (i.e. measures that would either help the community preserve the game after the support cycle is over and official servers are closed OR refunds all the money to the players) should not be the norm.

In fact, it should be culturally unacceptable, it should qualify as a sacrilege, equivalent to book burning. Because this is what it is - pieces of culture being erased - worse - marked for total and complete erasure before they even come into existence.

It should be frowned upon, and maybe even illegal.

2 Feb 2023 at 19:43 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Boris Bezdar

@drq
Yes! "Games as a service" is a fraud.
This video is 3 years old but not nearly popular as it deserves:
youtu.be/tUAX0gnZ3Nw

2 Feb 2023 at 19:53 | Open on mastodon.ml
Шуро
@drq Applies to basically any "work of art as service".

Some content is just easier/possible to grab "illegally" and games are unique in this impossibility.
2 Feb 2023 at 21:09 | Open on friends.deko.cloud
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@shuro Sure!

It's ALWAYS MORALLY CORRECT to pirate Netflix movies.

2 Feb 2023 at 21:09 | Open on mastodon.ml
Vftdan

@drq
Reminded me of this comment unded a video about Homestuck (thankfully, somebody made a browser+torrent file for Homestuck itself) (tho it's more about art media, not pieces):

"""
Reading this comment immediately got me wondering if that kind of thing could ever have happened in the past, but it doesn't really seem possible before the internet. Every type of medium before the digital age would have had to be physical, and thus could be replicated by anyone with the right materials. If an archeologist discovered a previously unknown type of audio record, it wouldn't be difficult to recreate the technology and make new ones. But there's only one internet. If it changes in a significant way, things that relied on old systems simply can't exist. (as seen with Flash)

I don't know how to feel about the fact that humanity created a system which has made it possible for mediums of art to go extinct.
"""
src: youtube.com/watch?v=Btv68SAk-o

@drq
Reminded me of this comment unded a video about Homestuck (thankfully, somebody made a browser+torrent file for Homestuck itself) (tho it's more about art media, not pieces):

"""
Reading this comment immediately got me wondering if that kind of thing could ever have happened in the past, but it doesn't really seem possible before the internet. Every type of medium before the digital age would have had to be physical, and thus could be replicated by anyone with the right materials. If an archeologist...

4 Feb 2023 at 16:00 | Open on mastodon.ml
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