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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

It's a good tactical goal. After all, it's manifestly "unfair" to charge you money for a game and then take the game away later, whether that's because you don't want to pay to keep the servers on (or let someone else run them), or because you don't want the old game to exist in order to coerce your customers into buying a new one.

Or both.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

No matter the reason, there is nothing good about the games industry's decades-long project of erasing its own past. It's bad for gamers, it's bad for game developers, and it's bad for games. No art form can exist in a permanent, atemporal *now*, with its history erased as quickly as it's created.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #London, #Toronto and #SanDiego!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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