Game companies should have to submit full copies of everything to run the game , servers and clients to the Library of Congress or Smithsonian for preservation
Game companies should have to submit full copies of everything to run the game , servers and clients to the Library of Congress or Smithsonian for preservation
They should do legal deposit in the country the game is developed. Some places they have to. The Hitman series is in the collection of national library of Denmark.
Why?
Is there a lower form of “art” than always online AAA garbage?
Im not going to lose any sleep over _COD 75: More of the Same Bullshit_ becoming lost media
A lot of lost media used to be considered garbage before it has gotten completely lost. Culture is always worth preserving, at least for historic purposes.
Most art is garbage, doesn't mean it's okay to make it inaccessible by fiat.
That's just, like, your opinion man.
I cannot explain how offensive this is to work of people who work on these games. Years and years of my life working on some incredible AAA games and you call it garbage because it's always online. Like, you think all the effort, all the actual art, music, writing, lore, world building....all of it garbage, because the game is online only? Do you think WoW is garbage and "art" in quotes?
I mean, it's the internet, you can have whatever opinion you want. But imho this is a particularly nasty and unkind opinion.
He thinks AAA games are garbage, not because they are online but because they are AAA. Similar to people's opinions about Marvel films and other high budget productions.
I don't know what you worked on but I'm sure it brought joy to a lot of people.