Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

• dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And in principle I’m fine with an online store that only sells conventional, offline singleplayer games to not give a pickle about service games.

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  • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good to know but I’m not sure how that’s relevant to the principle originally being discussed.

    The movement is about the legal right to keep what you paid for *period*. If you’re “fine” with publishers killing service games today, you’re just signaling to the industry that you’ll be fine with them adding mandatory online check-ins to your favorite single-player games tomorrow.

    Apathy toward a principle usually ends with losing the privilege you thought was safe… Food for thought.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I really can’t bother.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are a number of old LAN games there too. It’s basically the only place I can feasibly shop for multiplayer shooters at the moment. The sad part is that I think the newest one is Crysis Wars, from 2008.

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Of course, and many singleplayer games had multiplayer modes, that stuff wasn’t necessarily separated.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        For a number of these, they’re often games that had GameSpy servers or otherwise the online multiplayer portion of it was shut down, yet the game and multiplayer remain playable, and that’s what SKG is about.

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