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It's not like they were designed like that on purpose. It was a limitation of the technology of the time. If they could've made as many live service games back
by squigz 1y ago
It's not like they were designed like that on purpose. It was a limitation of the technology of the time. If they could've made as many live service games back then, they would have.
This comparison is also unfair for a couple more reasons:
- It ignores the fact that when a game was released on CD back then... that's it. No updates. No patches. Nothing. You break it, that's it. Game ending bug that corrupts your save? TOO BAD. Oh, scratched your CD? TOO BAD. Maybe try one of these folk remedies with tooth paste or some such.
- And the flipside of that: that paying for live service games, you get consistent updates, new content, new cosmetics, etc, etc. You also get features like cloud saves. You don't have to worry about managing 100s of CDs or worry about a scratch on them or anything like that.
Is there a problem these days with online-only games being shut down? Yes, absolutely, and I hope the industry moves away from that.
Is romanticizing an era of gaming that was not all that great the way forward? I don't think so.
- mcnamaratw 1y agoNot all of that is true. Who played with the un-updated CD version?
- nilamo 1y agoAll of us who never hooked the dreamcast up to the internet.
- Firehawke 1y agoDreamcast didn't have game patches over the internet. That wasn't a thing until the Xbox. You could, in rare occasions, download additional content (e.g. PSO had downloadable quests) but the vast majority of games were standalone.
- anthk 1y agoWe downloaded patches or get them as an extra with PC gaming magazines just fine. On CD's... everyone backed up them at ISO's and mounted them with dedicated software.
- HideousKojima 1y agoA game doesn't need to be live service to support cloud saves, though. There are completely DRM free games on Steam that support cloud saves. And PC games that released on discs back in the day still could get updates. Edit: I also almost forgot, even for users without internet patches for popular games were often distributed on demo discs included with magazines like PC Gamer.
- armada651 1y ago> It's not like they were designed like that on purpose. It was a limitation of the technology of the time. If they could've made as many live service games back then, they would have. Not every game released today is a live service game and I'm pretty sure people would have had the same objections back in those days. > Is romanticizing an era of gaming that was not all that great the way forward? I don't think so. People advocating for video game preservation aren't advocating we all go back to CD-ROM. Video game preservation can be done digitally perfectly fine. What people are advocating for is that games are designed to remain at least functional once the company doesn't deem it financially viable to provide services for that game anymore.
- Sleaker 1y ago> Oh, scratched your CD? TOO BAD. Maybe try one of these folk remedies with tooth paste or some such. Not folk remedies, you can take it to a game store and most have the equipment to resurface the CD.