The games industry is getting absolutely hammered by this stuff.
If there’s a game currently in development, that doesn’t have the backing of a large company and has more than 5 people working on it, there’s a good chance its going to get canned because venture capitol backers aren’t going to pick up the next bill.
Whilst I’m not gonna act like the other guy. This “if you bought into the clearly false marketing then it’s your fault” crap needs to die.
It’s not consumers’ fault for thinking that a superman movie has a flying superman when they talk about how superman flies in the movie. It’s always the companies fault. I do not think it is at all helpful to blame the consumers foe cdprs faults.
I don’t care if they post patch notes, I think it’s strange that communities like this post them as news. It’s not usual to see it. People don’t post news posts about some random games small patch. But cp2042? Every patch gets an article posted in places like this
Are you like this in real life? or just a weirdo on the internet. If you act like this in reality I’m just gonna warn you right now that everyone you know doesn’t like it, they think it’s weird.
As much as I like Nightdive for what they do, I have a hard time going all in on the idea that they are doing something good for game preservation. They certainly do help bring things that have been lost to time back for a while, but if we take a quote from the interview
As technology advances those requirements become more and more difficult to acquire or emulate making some video games unplayable. As an art form this is unacceptable - years of collective time spent by artists, designers, and programmers should never be lost. These games can never be played again, but more importantly we can never learn from them.
All of Nightdive’s remasters are going to fall to this exact fate, technology marches on, their releases stop working natively, require some level of emulation, and ultimately get lost to time.
It would be different if they open sourced their remasters, but understably they are probably restricted from doing so.
It’s not really game preservation. For many of these titles, it’s just one last hurrarh.