Being software doesn't help matters either.
nope
I'm going to have to agree with Melf on this one. Even if something doesn't hold any value to yourself personally doesn't mean others folks don't feel the same broski. If this wasn't the case there wouldn't be places out there now that are actively trying to preserve video games as a form of art. A lot of people do have questions about gaming from where it started to where it is now. We need to preserve that as best we can & yes even the shitty games done over the years have some sort of value in that aspect.
6-6-98 - 6-6-18 Happy 20th Anniversary TNL
see, you are moving goalposts now. I’m not arjuing against the preservation of games over the years. I’m saying that the stuff released at THIS time doesnt really matter, especially the competitive multiplayer junk that Stadia will be focused on.
Regarding that other point though, would anyone’s life be vastly impacted had that Famicom game that everyone was crying about been dumped and released? No. Just because I’m into cars doesn’t mean I’m entitled to drive every car that ever existed.
If 99% of mobile games get lost, it will be for the best.
Not recreationally, no, but cultural history is valuable for other reasons. We lost 95% of silent films because people thought they were value-less once talkies came out, and the idea that anyone would take a historical interest in them -- let alone the advent of home media -- was inconceivable. But that's seen as a great tragedy as a lot of important and influential works are now completely gone.
But they WERE right. No one was going to pay to see those movies in theaters once talkies were out. But that just isn't the point.
I just think the less plastic and electronics I have to buy to play a game the better. It's great that people want to preserve stuff, but for games, I'd rather see that take the form of emulation and piracy. Those two things are actually effective, and they rely on general purpose computing rather than specialized hardware and media that needs to be manufactured and maintained.
Comparing Silents and modern games is a disingenuous comparison. If you can’t see that, I’m not going to bother trying to make you.
6-6-98 - 6-6-18 Happy 20th Anniversary TNL
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