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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (10 children)

This is true. I've been grieving the loss of Isekai Demon Waifu, which shut down only a few days ago on the 19th of this month. I had been playing it over 3 years, and had unlocked most of the girls, become the #1 on my server, and had grown attached to seeing my harem girls every night when I play the game before bed. I missed the server shutdown notification and I was messed up the next day. It hit me hard.

I hope there is another harem game with succubi and monster girls. IDW had a lot of charm. The music, art style, aesthetic. Amazing monster girls. I'm going to miss seeing Ephinas, Fiadum, Hastia, Scardia, Palotti, Ymir, and all the others.

It doesn't seem fair that we can spend years of our life, hundreds or even thousands of dollars, make a game experience part of our lives, and then one day it just goes poof and it's all gone. Part of you vanishes in that moment. It's like a bandaid being ripped off a wound, or a light in your life going out. Because someone else decided it cost too much to keep a server running?

They should be required to transition the game into an offline mode!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

They should be required to transition the game into an offline mode!

Seems to me like this would be good business sense too. Wouldn't people be more likely to buy their next online game if you felt there was a good chance you could keep playing it after a few years? Instead they're going to get a reputation for making products with a short shelf life.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Piracy is essentially a form of archivism. The digital age literally ended scarcity in digital media and these people were like "well that won't do".

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 days ago

Im honestly so sick of online games that should be offline. I just got a few switch games to pass time on my breaks, and half of them require internet access. One of them is literally a bubble shooter.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I boycott single player games that require online login/validation. Rockstar and Ubisoft are on my blacklist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I returned Red Dead Redemption 2 on steam after seeing I needed an entire Shitstar account.

5 years ago I would have just forgotten about it and moved on but in today's climate, fuck em. They don't even deserve my $1.40.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Out of the games I’ve been fortunate to work on, 1/7 require internet, and the 1 was my first industry job as QA. Everything else has been mobile, online required. 5/7 are no longer playable / removed from the internet.

It makes me sad because my kids will never play a bunch of things I made. I can’t revisit them nostalgically. If I had made something in the 90s, it would be preserved still.

I played the cards dealt to me to follow a dream and make a living, but I wish the industry wasn’t like this. The money has always been a role, but nowadays, it’s distorted so badly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's the difference shareholders make.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Two more months to go and more than 50% left to reach 1 million signatures. It's sad to see that with how many people game, this petition has so little reach. I guess we'll have to wait till Fortnite is shut down, then suddenly many more will care that their childhood game is gone forever.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, I think it was just a lack of awareness that the petition in existed in certain countries where Ross just didn't have enough reach, possibly due to language barriers. A big push from native speakers of those countries with large audiences, like streamers, could've pushed it over the edge.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gotta save up for some hard drives to download and keep my GOG games, plus some ~~pirated~~ totally legally acquired titles

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, trusting that anything Internet connected keeps working is a pipedream these days unfortunately.

Hardware and software.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I don't even trust non-unlockable bootloaders. There's so much planned obsolescence everywhere

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

that's why i dont buy digital games on nintendo. one day the service ends and it's gone forever.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (19 children)

I'm not buying Nintendo at all, so many shitty policies from that camp

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

That's why I only buy games on GOG. After purchase I archive the installer, and it's mine forever. On console you are really fucked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I’m still upset about Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy & The Polar Night Liberator

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