microsoft: we just fired entire studios that we bought recently. we are building a master collection of IPs to do nothing with other than passively profit off of them forever using game pass. part of this master plan is to cause large instability in the video game industry through aforementioned mass layoffs. also we are quite literally helping a genocide.
lemmy: oh. that’s kinda shitty but I liked oblivion remastered :)
nintendo: we made our game 80$
lemmy: if anyone even thinks about liking some of your stuff they should be burned at the stake.
<srs> obviously im exaggerating to make a point, and no if you ask I don’t like nintendo. fuck them. but I think the reaction here is a bit disproportionate. a company could do all the evil in the world but as long as they don’t touch the sacrosanct consumer, it’s all good in the eyes of a gamer! </srs>
GOG and itch’s approach to preservation is always gonna be limited by legality, you can’t keep a game on your platform if the publisher requests its delisting; ofc piracy isn’t constrained by this, so it’s inherently better at preservation
at least, since the games on there don’t have DRM, once you have them you keep them (and with GOG, you can also download offline installers that you can reuse on any computer you want). they make piracy (and therefore preservation) way easier in that way, because pirates don’t even need to repack the game!
!Screenshof of a Bluesky post by @headfallsoff.com: “when the BDS boycott started i said microsoft would shut down their entire xbox division before abandoning a single military contract, does not feel good to be proven so correct so fast”
thank you for your posts, it’s always a great time to read them!
i love that you share cool fan projects too! it’s inspiring me to make a physical collection for my GOG games, including actual DVDs with the games installers on them. most of the physical collection projects i see seem to only do the box, but i want to go all in!
depends on your time zone, it most of the world it comes out wednesday (aka, as i write this, tomorrow where i am, or even today if you live east of the atlantic!)
(the switch 2 version comes out at 00:00 on thursday no matter the time zone tho)
you missed the Hopes Others Will Do The Same part.
they’re pulling their game as part of the larger BDS boycott. the point is to put pressure on complicit companies (in this case microsoft) for them to stop working with israel
the IDF won’t care, but if enough devs pull their games, and if enough people stop using xbox products & services, microsoft will care.