• buckykat [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    Capitalists don't care about game preservation. In fact, it's directly against their interests. Every minute someone is playing a preserved game they bought a decade ago is a minute they're not playing a new game they bought this quarter.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      One of my beliefs about the new doom is that it's made without the ability to mod because if you can mod it, why would you ever buy the next one when the incremental improvements in the sequel can be recreated via mods but better, but also the insane amount of mods that the OG doom got and still gets could be done with the new doom and sale of sequels would most likely suffer because of it.

      • buckykat [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        The original DOOM has been modded beyond all sense and ported to everything imaginable. This is beautiful but creates no shareholder value.

        • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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          5 months ago

          It got a meta quest fan port, and the quest app allows you to apply a host of mods, with any VR weapon pack of your choice; no game has ever been this molded and reformed, not even half-life was this malleable.