• lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I really miss the pre-internet days when I’d buy a game, never worrying that the company’s server would be offline, that they’d sunset support rendering the game unplayable, harvest my data, or engineer the game to coerce me into buying extras.

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      7 months ago

      If Nintendo doesn’t do something silly like brick switches when they retire the platform, at least we should be good there when it comes to physical releases. Diablo 2 resurrected, while digital only and requiring an internet connection, has an offline mode but only on nintendo switch. Also GOG.com has a bunch of stuff.

      We are definitely not as well off as we once were in this regard though. Ah… The good ol’ days…