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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 01:31:02 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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   • Space Quest Historian
   • Mireya Strife

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   Hard agree, and also, very much preaching to tge choir: Fortnite is fundamentally unpreserved as there's no way of accessing content from psst seasons, even though you're nominally playing the same game you were last year.

   @sqhistorian

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     Mireya Strife (strife@masto.es)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 01:31:03 JST Mireya Strife

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     • Space Quest Historian

     @sqhistorian but the lack of preservation is done on purpose. It's in the best interest of the corporations to reduce the life span* of videogames so you have to buy the shiny new thing that will make them the most profits, instead of playing your old games.

     *with the exception being games like Fortnite that have in-game purchases, hence they continue making them money.

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     Space Quest Historian (sqhistorian@dosgame.club)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 01:31:05 JST Space Quest Historian

     Not to mention this is also bad for video game preservation. Years from now, the servers meant to handle your account creation will probably cease to be, and the games will be unplayable unless someone cracks them. The shortsightedness of this industry never fails to amaze me.