Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband...
by jjav on Sunday February 12, 2023 @11:44PM
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> One thing that's really sad to me is that older games end up being a lot more durable than newer ones
Not just games, it's really.. everything.
I predict that a 100 years from now the collectors of old things of any kind will have a lot more from prior to 2000-2020 (depending on the item) than anything newer. Whether it is computers, electronics, games, cars, doesn't matter.
All of them are becoming so dependent on third-party cloud services and phone apps that simply won't exist and will be impossible to recreate in a century. All that will survive is the older generation of products that did not depend on anything. Very sad.
Not just games, it's really.. everything.
I predict that a 100 years from now the collectors of old things of any kind will have a lot more from prior to 2000-2020 (depending on the item) than anything newer. Whether it is computers, electronics, games, cars, doesn't matter.
All of them are becoming so dependent on third-party cloud services and phone apps that simply won't exist and will be impossible to recreate in a century. All that will survive is the older generation of products that did not depend on anything. Very sad.