Aren't we all though. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Elusive
I was referring him to their 'efforts', just to deflate any notion that might be had that this is a 'new' complaint he's dreamed up.
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Aren't we all though. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Elusive
I was referring him to their 'efforts', just to deflate any notion that might be had that this is a 'new' complaint he's dreamed up.
My view is that digital items do not age, can (variably) be transferred from one media to another, can be modified using software to work with varying hardware (i.e. software emulation) and remain intact basically indefinitely on magnetic platters - as opposed to facing the scenario of having a disc with nothing to play it on. I mean, how many millions must there be of old, unknown C64 or Speccy tapes that are basically degrading into nothingness because the magazine it was sold in lasted for twelve issues and the coder was a fourteen-year-old from Milton Keynes who's now a middle-level accountant with a wife and kids?
Is keeping sealed games 'for the museum' any different from putting a HDD in a cupboard?
[edit] I mean, fuck, I want a storage media that will outlast the natural entropy of the Universe. If I can't play Peggle in the year fifteen-million-and-twelve I'll be so pissed off!
[edit2] and I still won't be even near the global leaderboards :(
haa peggleQuote:
Originally Posted by Elusive
How did you discover I was running a video game company? :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Elusive
Because I have a copy - well, the box - here of your 'Giovanni O'Rourke's Pro Hearse Racing' game; it contained an expired coupon for Ready Brek, with teeth marks on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Smith