Not really. In fact technology is often a great example of good demand but little effort put in to meet it. Open source software is riddled with issues that people are too eager enough to report but not eager enough to fix for everyone . We have an example of Palworld finally filling a niche described in the market for almost 2 decades.
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Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months agoBut it actually makes sense with technology. If you need help, you want there to be a large community and corpus of knowledge to draw from.
Ilflish@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Sheeple@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cassette Beasts? TemTem? Digimon? Saying no attempts to fill it were made is disgenuine
Ilflish@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Should have been more clear, I’m talking about a 3D open world Pokemon. So the closest one to that is Digimon, which doesn’t have captures. It took until Pokémon themselves created a poor version of what people asked for in this instance for another one to appear.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 4 months ago
oh I was never really desiring 3D pokémon in the first place so I suppose that coincides with my misunderstanding
anarchy79@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I would argue that you can’t do better for help and support than for old niche technologies and frameworks, because things like that always have a vibrant community of enthusiasts ready and eager to help.
Compare eMacs. Why isn’t everyone using eMacs? It’s basically superpowers for any client you install it on, and it installs on everything. Ridiculously hardcore fanbase, we’re talking original flame wars on Usenet levels supporters.
Usenet, apropos, is quite topical on this matter. You should look it up. Fuck it here’s the robot for ya:
Original RSS, from back in the day. Still active.