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"The conversation about preservation in the video game industry is continuing
at a nice pace. Honestly, the most encouraging part of all of this, as someone
who has been writing about this topic for several years now, is seeing how much
more mainstream the topic has become. It used to be that certain servers or
services being shut down by publishers, thereby breaking the games that people
had bought, mostly resulted in shrugs an utterances of, “Oh well, thems the
shits.” But at present, far more people are acknowledging that these games,
online or otherwise, are pieces of human culture worthy of preservation.
And if you’re looking for a true titan in the gaming industry weighing in on
the topic, well, you just got it. Amid the shutdown of several games recently,
John Carmack gave a comprehensive statement to
UploadVR on the topic. Amid
all kinds of discussion about the shutdown of
Echo VR by Meta, he goes right
into the preservation angle.
After noting up front that companies are far too quick to shut down games in
general, purely over potentially misguided profit motives, he then launches
into what really should be SOP for game makers moving forward."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
