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Re:Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy con... by ptmcc on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:24PM (#23082439)
In the old days that was probably more true than it is today, since so many games are "as a service" now with shared engines, online platforms, continual updates/patches, tons of expansions and DLC, supporting mods, etc.

The downside is that we'll never really be able to play today's games nostalgically like we can with old burned-to-ROM games.

Online multiplayer games have a shelf life of sorts that depends on the servers being available and having other people to play with. There's a few examples of community-driven projects to revive classic online multiplayer games with mixed success but it'll just never be the same thing.

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Re:Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy con... by creamynebula on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:10PM (#23083630)
After MSN Gaming Zone died in 2006, the Age of Empires II community developed a multitude of alternatives to play the game online (with a rating ladder). The one that was the most widely used up to the very recent release by MS of AoE2:DE on Steam was Voobly, which exists since 2008, although back then it was called IGZones.
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