New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable

  • Apathy Tree
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    11 year ago

    Games that require active servers are also not meant to be sold forever, and imho all those games should be digital only. I wish they didn’t have discs, because as a used game buyer, I have to really hope the dude working the counter is gunna tell me the servers for the game are already shut down 6 months after release… I’ve bought 2 games with inactive servers so far. Can’t play them at all unless I find someone hosting a private server who is cool with me joining to see if I even like the game, which is wildly unlikely.

    I don’t buy online games for this reason, and it’s getting harder to know which ones require online to function at all. They all say “require online for network features” but don’t specify when the whole game is network features? Minefield.

    Gaming is getting so damn difficult. I miss just walking in, finding a game, buying it, and knowing it would work, even if the console isn’t hooked to Wi-Fi.

    • ampersandrew
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      41 year ago

      Games that require active servers are also not meant to be sold forever,

      I was pretty careful with my wording. I said they weren’t built to be sold forever. Maybe that’s pedantic, but I’d consider it shortsighted thinking that they can’t get the perpetual license to sell that game with those cars, just like I’d consider it shortsighted thinking that games are sold that require a connection to the publisher’s server. In either case, it’s BS.