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BiggestKai said:
I'm on board with the project but I'm not that optimistic to be honest. I mean the golden grail would be what that Epic MOBA game Paragon did, which is release models and textures and all sorts of stuff to the open source domain(or at least the UE asset market, I'm not 100% sure) and while that game got at least three fan revival projects only one(Predecessor)'s really hanging on with a 1.5k player count and the game is largely forgotten outside an FPS roguelite called Bullets Per Minute that used models from Paragon.

I'm rambling but the point being yeah we can keep games alive but it's not like everyone who yearns for a game's return will actually play said return assuming it's a flawed but functional revival of a game(Tribes Ascend's community server launcher or that one largely forgotten Gigantic revival). The games benefiting from this I doubt would be enough to "save" gaming.
I'll take my puzzle pieces now.
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I'd agree the chance is small but the idea of right to own is increasingly more popular and at least stuff like gacha have some good in it that will be wiped out after the game goes End of Service.

Saving gaming will happen when the idea of pushing out bad practices becomes standard practice rather than just accepting whatever shit devs pull.
 
BiggestKai said:
I'm on board with the project but I'm not that optimistic to be honest. I mean the golden grail would be what that Epic MOBA game Paragon did, which is release models and textures and all sorts of stuff to the open source domain(or at least the UE asset market, I'm not 100% sure) and while that game got at least three fan revival projects only one(Predecessor)'s really hanging on with a 1.5k player count and the game is largely forgotten outside an FPS roguelite called Bullets Per Minute that used models from Paragon.

I'm rambling but the point being yeah we can keep games alive but it's not like everyone who yearns for a game's return will actually play said return assuming it's a flawed but functional revival of a game(Tribes Ascend's community server launcher or that one largely forgotten Gigantic revival). The games benefiting from this I doubt would be enough to "save" gaming.
I'll take my puzzle pieces now.
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It's not really a question of whether it's worth going to the trouble because it's unlikely anyone will actually play these games in the future, it's more that it's worth it to keep it alive for those that may want to. Ross has made the point before that you can never be sure just what will inspire a person's creativity, so you never know which of the many games dying off and being rendered unplayable for no good reason might have been the starting point for something great. And it's also good from a preservation standpoint, where it's not just older games that aren't compatible with modern hardware are hard to keep playable, but also games with online components that sometimes aren't even possible to launch anymore (again, for no good reason). Look at the lengths fans go to already to keep games alive as a passion project, and think of how much easier it would be for them if publishers actually took the minimal effort on their end to help.

I am always in favor of media preservation. It sucks that the legal route might be the only way to ensure it, but that's what the industry gets for not doing it themselves.
 
Imagine if this is what Freeman's Mind sounded like, in some dark alternate timeline where Ross is a mold cow. How did this non stop talking protagonist trend start anyway? Duke Nukem was mostly movie quotes. L4D had plenty of talking but it wasn't obnoxious(not counting vocalizers). It also served the gameplay, like alerting you that someone got caught by a special infected. Now it's like writers are failing to mimick Ross genius
 

This was already posted in the SKG thread, but (at the 12:00 mark), Ross speaking in front of BR*TISH FUCKING PARLIAMENT was something I never knew I needed to see until now.

This is 100% paving the path to the eventual Joshua "Null" Moon speaking in front of the US Supreme Court. Or Congress. Or the Okaloosa County Utility Board Steering Committee.
 
I can't wait to see Ross dressed in a posh suit.
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American residing in Poland will be lecturing Brits on why we get to keep the things we buy, actually. Poetry.
 
What a trooper. He clearly didn't want or expect to actually be speaking there and you can tell he's nervous but he still does it. :semperfidelis:
 
Ross is giving me aging Gaben vibes, except Gaben is turning into Vidya Santa, and Ross is turning into a cross between Vidya Dumbledore and Vidya Jesus. It's surreal hearing him talk without the usual chipper, higher tone.
 
The Netherlands representative speaking entirely in video game quotes...

I don't know if it was great, or cringy, but now it's on record in the European Parliament...
 
Imagine going back in time to 2008 and telling people that the guy who made videos of Gordan Freeman screaming was giving presentations to European Parliament.
 
I cannot express with words how i am proud of our boy.
To think that the guy who did a silly show about half life will be in such position today. Its hard to find people like him.
He doesn't want to do it and it fucking shows,he was warning us all about this for the last decade, and when he realized no one would do it he took the reigns.
God speed Ross, fuck em up!
 
If you told me that the guy who made the Pirate Day Freeman's Mind episode would be leading the way on the biggest digital consumer rights win, I might actually have believed you, because he has cared about this far longer than I have.
 
I made this a while ago and felt like it wasn't very good and thought of doing a better version, before I even knew it the "moment to post it" had long passed.

This feels like another proper moment to post it and I suppose real shitty is better than "a little bit more refined but never delivered".

 
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