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Always on DRM is also a threat to the preservation of artistic works for future generations. Folks still play the early Civilization and Sim City titles even af
by bjz_ 13y ago
Always on DRM is also a threat to the preservation of artistic works for future generations. Folks still play the early Civilization and Sim City titles even after all these years.
- trycatch 13y agoAll server-based MMOs will be canceled sooner or later. Dead sites will be preserved by the Internet Archive, but dead MMOs will be known for future generations only in Let's plays and secondary sources. Relevant article, "MMO graveyard": http://mmohuts.com/editorials/mmo-graveyard http://mmohuts.com/editorials/mmo-graveyard
- nknighthb 13y agoI play a server-based MMO that effectively ceased to exist over a decade ago. Third-party reimplementations of many MMO servers are thriving.
- byuu 13y ago> I play a server-based MMO that effectively ceased to exist over a decade ago. Second Age, In Por Ylem or Forever? :P
- girvo 13y agoWhich, interestingly, is why one of the head developers who worked on Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (the MMO, that was quite enjoyable) wants the debug dev version cleaned up and release: It removed all the online content, and just let you take a character through the entire world, all offline. He wants to do that, as a way of preserving the world. It might not have the content, but its something, and an interesting take on it!
- markeganfuller 13y agoGot a link? That sounds interesting.
- Semaphor 13y agoSome googling turned up his blog post: http://shinytoys.org/blog/war-in-a-bottle http://shinytoys.org/blog/war-in-a-bottle
- __david__ 13y ago…and Asteroids and Pacman via MAME and other emulators. Those are even older.