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The new worst gaming trend: killing our favorite games to replace them with sequels (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Virkkunen@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How is this a trend? It happened with two games and you can still play one of them (CSGO).

EDIT: it happened with 4-ish games, actually, and the Blizzard games are the only ones we cannot play anymore.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How do you mean you can still play CSGO? There are no official servers and even installing and launching it is not straight forward at all? I'd akin that to saying you can still play Vanilla WoW and point to private servers, which is not what anyone means.

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[–] PlatinumSf@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Arguably I think it's happened to a few more than that, Warcraft 3 comes to mind in the Battle.net launcher.

[–] ezures@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago

Same with the gta 3 trilogy, but R* backtracked after the backlash for the awful remasters

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sure is cool how this doesn't affect pirates.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Affects multiplayer.

[–] DarkenLM@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spacewar enters the chat

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I strongly recommend against downloading a pirated version of spacewar as the original was shareware and the source code for multiple versions is available on github. For those purists https://archive.org/details/SPACEWAR_1020

[–] DarkenLM@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think we're talking about the same Spacewar. The Spacewar I'm talking about is "used" by pirated games only to the extent that they make steam think the pirated game is spacewar, unlocking access to the steamworks API, including multiplayer support.

[–] DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As someone who mostly plays offline single player games, I don’t really care what they “kill” by creating new enshittified versions of things. I already cultivated a save version of the game I like, it’s installed on a pc that rarely or never goes online that you can’t access and deactivate, and since you spent my 40 bucks already as per our agreement, I’ll enjoy it whenever I want forever without your input or any future consent required from your company. Cope.

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